Anyone else pick up some books today?

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Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:08:39 2014 No.5788335 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone else pick up some books today?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:11:32 2014 No.5788345 Yeah, give me a sec to take a picture of them. Sure beats reading them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:11:55 2014 No.5788348 >>5788335 No, nobody else.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:12:56 2014 No.5788355 >that crime and punishment edition gah fuck, disgusting

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:13:07 2014 No.5788356 File: 10 KB, 306x344, 1413713559857.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that edition of C&P

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:14:35 2014 No.5788363 File: 1.33 MB, 200x192, 1364335681836.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that C&P

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:14:51 2014 No.5788365 File: 31 KB, 230x368, crime_and_punishment.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yeah, they didn't have best cover.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:15:00 2014 No.5788366 fat fucking pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:18:13 2014 No.5788375 Not today, but I purchased pic related the other day (translation is by William Weaver).

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:18:19 2014 No.5788376 >that crime and punishment More like crime and plebishment

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:18:23 2014 No.5788377 File: 29 KB, 260x362, 9781435131828_p0_v1_s260x420.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm gonna be honest, I just got back into reading and I'm pretty damn new on /lit/. Tell me, how bad is it, and what is the superior cover?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:19:18 2014 No.5788378 File: 124 KB, 521x800, namerose.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788375 Forgot pic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:19:29 2014 No.5788381 >getting that c&p what the fuck, opie

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:21:38 2014 No.5788386 >>5788377 >what is the superior cover? >>5788365

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:24:00 2014 No.5788393 >>5788377 Literally anything. It's bulkier than it need be and it has that disgusting "ye olde hardcorer" look.

Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:26:37 2014 No.5788401

>>5788377
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, most people just think it looks gross/embarrassing. if you like it then it's fine.

It just has this certain air of "look at me, I'm a serious reader. Look at these swirls and regal colors, and royalty free 'classic' font."

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:30:16 2014 No.5788411 >>5788401 To be honest, I got it because I prefer hardcover to paperback. I wasn't thinking "look at me" or anything (not like anyone where I live reads anyway), I just thought it looked better than a "___ Classics" edition.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:41:33 2014 No.5788451 Blue is the Warmest Color (Maroh) Bright Lights Big City (McInerney) The Box Man (Abe) Of Human Bondage (Maugham) Native Son (Wright) Ordered on Amazon because the brick-and-mortar price was absurd. No picture.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:47:32 2014 No.5788469 Dude, Watership down is such a good book, I read it about a year ago. definitly one of my favorites

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:49:10 2014 No.5788478 File: 316 KB, 463x766, tfwnoqtsonyagf.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the norton cover is also pretty shit tier but it does have some good extras

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:51:30 2014 No.5788485 File: 18 KB, 260x405, 9781593081232_p0_v1_s260x420.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Currently reading

Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:52:31 2014 No.5788489

>>5788469
I knew I would probably like it when I first read the synopsis.

I love authors that can anthropomorphize animals without it getting too "disney talking animal". Rabbits also have a certain special quality because my father had a small rabbit farm for a little while.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:54:33 2014 No.5788498 >>5788376 underrated post

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:55:52 2014 No.5788503 I never really enjoyed "As I Lay Dying" For one, I was forced to read it as part of a class. Also, I couldn't find a character I could identify with. It was not a good experience for me

Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:57:31 2014 No.5788512

>>5788489
Adams does a great job of not making them humans painted as rabbits, yet still is able to get you emotionally attached to them. The el ahrairah stories through out the book are also pretty awesome, especially the "Black rabbit of inle one", it gets pretty dark. I might just have to read that book again soon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:57:42 2014 No.5788514 >>5788489 It reminded me of The Lord of the Rings in some odd way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:58:07 2014 No.5788517 >>5788401 the word you're searching for is "garish"

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 19:58:48 2014 No.5788520 >>5788503 >he has to identify with a character to enjoy a book t o p p l e b

Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:00:31 2014 No.5788532

>>5788503
Being made to read a book in school fucking ruins it for people. Even if they would have liked it otherwise, being made to do something inevitably makes it seem like a chore. I think they should make people have to choose a book and write a report instead.

I was forced to read To Kill a Mockingbird, where we just listened to it on tape, and it bored me to tears. I don't even feel like rereading it to see if it's actually any good, that experience just ruined it for me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:20:42 2014 No.5788606 >>5788478 >feodor Who does this

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:22:42 2014 No.5788613 >>5788503 >Also, I couldn't find a character I could identify with. Please leave this board >>>/tv/ >>>/v/ Are right up your alley

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:26:39 2014 No.5788628 File: 42 KB, 944x472, order.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788335

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:27:38 2014 No.5788632 File: 29 KB, 396x400, 1401869608286.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788606 >tfw I just noticed that Has it ever been written like that on anything else?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:28:02 2014 No.5788635 File: 2.68 MB, 2448x3264, IMG_2838.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788335 Here's what I got today, have fun insulting me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:30:01 2014 No.5788646 >>5788635 You're going to take a while to read that heh

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:31:28 2014 No.5788652 >>5788635 I was going to pick up David Copperfield a few weeks ago but i wound up getting Hard Times instead, haven't read it yet though

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:36:27 2014 No.5788670 >>5788652 pick up "A Tale of Two Cities"

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:39:12 2014 No.5788679 >>5788646 >implying he'll read any of it

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:41:30 2014 No.5788692 Bought Brothers Karamazov, Lolita, V. and Blood Meridian

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 20:57:04 2014 No.5788768 >A Farewell To Arms >Catch-22 >Heart of Darkness >Last Exit To Brooklyn >On the Road >Persepolis >Slash >Kingdom of Fear

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 21:26:31 2014 No.5788895 File: 159 KB, 807x850, Black_Rabbit_of_Inle_by_evion.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788512 i read watership down when i was a kid and the black rabbit of inle gave me nightmares

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 21:27:47 2014 No.5788898 >>5788635 having dickens on your stack makes you pretty much uninsultable as far as i am concerned

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 22:04:39 2014 No.5789040 >>5788335 Pale Fire Intro to Logic Cat's Cradle Varieties of Religious Experience I picked up that very same copy of As I Lay Dying, but I have already read the book, and wanted something new.

Anonymous Fri Nov 28 22:41:34 2014 No.5789255

>>5788335
I decided to stop buying books and movies until I finish everything I already have.
It's actually been going really well, and for the first time in my life, I am reading more books than buying them.
I'm hoping to finish all my books and movies by the end of 2015 then I'll go back to buying new shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 22:49:42 2014 No.5789291 File: 35 KB, 326x500, Q.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Q - Luther Blissett (reading now and liking a lot) Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess Against Method - Paul Feyerabend Cities Under Siege - Stephan Graham The Myth of 1648 - Benno Teschke

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 22:50:14 2014 No.5789293 Recently bought the 1890 uncensored, unedited version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm actually very excited that I could actually find it, I can't wait to compare with the 1891 version that everyone reads more commonly,

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 23:05:00 2014 No.5789368 >>5788635 I want that Starship Troopers/Stranger in a strange Land book but I can't get it on German ebay/amazon etc. FUCK!

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 28 23:10:36 2014 No.5789387 Either you got a bunch of small books (aside from C&P), or you got an extra-huge version of C&P. As my paperback edition isn't that huge.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 01:17:03 2014 No.5790033 >>5789255 I could probably never do this. It's like I need to know that there is a surplus of books to read. >>5788646 You know it. >>5789368 I'm sorry to hear that, man. I hope you find it somewhere.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 01:25:46 2014 No.5790063 >>5788345 Your the one on 4chan reading his post of his picture, you are infinitely more pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:05:49 2014 No.5790167 File: 113 KB, 331x329, Why Lina.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788635 >Penguin Classics Gravity's Rainbow >Dune Sequels. You have fucked up, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:14:57 2014 No.5790184 >>5790167 So I'm not missing anything by not reading Dune sequels? I thought Dune was great, a great stand alone novel, I'm sure the books are fine, it's just a lot of them are out there..

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:16:11 2014 No.5790189 >>5788635 cool spider

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:22:00 2014 No.5790199

>>5790184
If you've read Dune, you know how the quality of the writing had begun to accelerate deeper into a quality tail-spin. It begins in the middle of the book, when Paul has his first visions of the Jihad, but by the time of that "ending," the book is hardly interesting anymore. I enjoyed Dune, I'm glad I read it, but I have no interest in ever reading it again - and certainly don't want to venture further into the series. Everyone knows Children of Dune is awful, and only brief passages in God Emperor are interesting - at least from what I'm repeatedly told.

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:25:02 2014 No.5790206

picked up tricia lockwood's motherland father land homolandsexuals
also a nice slim little hardcover strunk&white's elements of style to keep handy in my bag
also calvino's invisible cities, which i'm going to start reading now

paid way too much for em all but whatevs

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:25:57 2014 No.5790213 >>5790167 I had a few 30% off coupons, so it cost around the same amount a normal copy would cost. I have no excuse for the Dune sequels. >>5790189 Thanks, he or she is the most generic breed of Tarantula you can buy. Its name is Baldr.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:27:04 2014 No.5790215 >>5788335 >B&N leatherbound >B&N >Black Friday >America Plebe/10

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 02:37:19 2014 No.5790229 next sequestering of books for me is probably gonna be xmas gifts from my parents. might just ask for like 3 or 4 vonnegut books i haven't read yet

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 03:35:05 2014 No.5790329 File: 55 KB, 904x531, lol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788375 >translation >>5790229 >xmas >parents >vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 03:45:05 2014 No.5790349 File: 13 KB, 177x278, 1373851273253.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5790167 Could someone please explain to me the Penguin maymay I keep seeing here? What is wrong with them-- Are they the EA of books or something?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 03:50:21 2014 No.5790360 >>5790349 The penguin deluxe edition of Gravity's Rainbow has one line omitted and a couple typos and the aspies on /lit/ didn't miss an opportunity to go apeshit over it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 04:48:32 2014 No.5790455 Guys i bought V. before buying Gravitys Rainbow I'm from brazil and i'm poor so i'm worried that i've made the wrong choice since there's a chance i wont order Gravity's Rainbow in at least 3 months was it the right choice?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 04:51:56 2014 No.5790461 >>5790455 No it's a fun book and you'll get ready for the latter which is much more complicated.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 05:02:41 2014 No.5790477 >>5790461 Cool, thanks

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 06:44:11 2014 No.5790654 File: 3.72 MB, 977x2917, 1416129034146.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5790455

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 09:36:07 2014 No.5791059 >>5790329 Don't you have parents anon? Do you need a shoulder to cry on?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 10:32:11 2014 No.5791162 >>5790360 In a novel that's already grasping quite tenuously at maintaining lucidity, typos and omissions are unforgivable. And who the hell commissions Frank Miller to do the cover art?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 10:37:50 2014 No.5791168 File: 2.01 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20141129_163603.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This beter be gud

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 10:43:12 2014 No.5791179 >>5788376 >any version of crime and punishment More like crime and plebishment

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 10:50:36 2014 No.5791194 >>5788345 >posting this on 4chan >not seeing the hypocrisy

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 10:50:58 2014 No.5791195 >>5791168 Do you live below sea level?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 10:51:53 2014 No.5791196 >>5788335 How many pages is that C&P? It looks way too big.

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 13:41:35 2014 No.5791763

Today -

Cannery Row, Steinbeck

Yesterday

As I lay Dying - Faulkner
Moonfleet - that guy
The Double - Fyodor Tolstoyshkinkovfka

Day Before

Flatland - I cant remember

Dubliners - Stephen Dedalus

And The complete Alfred Lord Tennyson poetry collection.

Still waiting for Sweet Thursday and the Old man in the C to arrive got all these for like 20 quid online so it is a bargain

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 13:43:19 2014 No.5791773 >>5788345 >you have to read books during all seconds of your life

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 14:58:16 2014 No.5792144 >>5790329 >"look at him, he loves his mother!"

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 16:33:40 2014 No.5792640 >>5791763 >Dubliners by Stephen Dedalus yikes

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:01:42 2014 No.5792785 >>5788485 I didn't really enjoy Heart of Darkness all that much aside from the prose. Am I pleb? (Don't worry, I already know Achebe is a shit.)

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:05:53 2014 No.5792802 >>5790184 I kept trying to give the sequels a chance, kept failing. But then, like >>5790199 said, I enjoyed the first half of Dune much more than the second, so that might be an indicator.

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:09:08 2014 No.5792811
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>>5788335

Biography of Caesar and History of England Vol 1&2 by Froude

Hypatia, or New Foes with and Old Face and Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley

The Stones of Venice Vol 1-3 and Modern Painters Vol 1 by John Ruskin

All in the public domain, off of Gutenburg/Google Books/Internet Archive.

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:10:26 2014 No.5792813

The Divine Comedy (Dorothy L. Sayers Poetry Translation)
Beowulf
Lolita
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Discourse on Method (Descartes)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

wondering whether or not I got the best Dante translation but if it sucks it was all £6 so w/e

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:12:38 2014 No.5792821 >>5792785 what does Achebe have to do with it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:14:00 2014 No.5792829 >>5792640 I do believe that post was b8 m8 dont let it Irrit8 u

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:14:24 2014 No.5792830 AWESOME BOOK HAULS EVERYONE!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS ARE JUST LIKE CHRISTINE!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1_B9kzG0g

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:16:15 2014 No.5792840 >>5788606 Fyodor is the slav version of Theodor, so I'm hardly surprised that some romanise it as 'Feodor'. Also remember that romanisation systems used for names change over time, and are specific for different languages.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:17:55 2014 No.5792850 >>5792821 Apparently Conrad is a terrible author because he was racist and thought all black people were mindless savages. Achebe clearly didn't read it and is racebaiting, read the Wikipedia page for links.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:18:42 2014 No.5792860 >>5792850 >Achebe clearly didn't read it and is racebaiting lel

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:27:59 2014 No.5792900

>>5792850
from the little i remember of Heart of Darkness, it was pretty obviously anti-racism. Does this mean Achebe isn't worth checking out? I've been interested in picking up Things Fall Apart, but if he can't read past a few mentions of nigger i mightn't bother

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:39:28 2014 No.5792954 Snow, Orhan Pamuk (hardback) Story of the Eye, Bataille The savage detectives, Roberto Bolaño I got an Oxford edition of a Scottish or Irish mans autobiographical novel, don't remember his name though. All in all, ~14$

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:45:30 2014 No.5792984

>>5792900
While I disagree with Achebe, that's not what he bases his argument on
He says that it's anti-colonialism and kinda anti-racism, but that the very act of whitey using black people and their land as this amorphous mass of inscruuuuutable mystery is racist in itself

So he's aware that it's anti-racist in intent, but he still gets kinda buttmad bcoz he's an African who likes literature, so he's probably sick of "whoa, Heart of Darkness is so anti-racist! let's read this instead of books by Africans!"

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:49:00 2014 No.5792996 >>5792984 i agree with you if thats the case, its a bit silly but at least it isn't reactionary and irrational, which i wouldn't be able to get behind at all

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:52:38 2014 No.5793005 >>5792829 falling for meta-b8 kek

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 17:55:41 2014 No.5793017

>>5792900
>>5792984

He's absurdly over-hyped for African literature, and he (and his political organization) has a cartel-like grip on anything in English. Read the Francophone output if you want real African talent. There was some article, I think in the LA Review of Books (?), about this, but I can't find it now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:04:42 2014 No.5793050 File: 1.22 MB, 2400x1271, recent cops.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I bought these a few days ago. About 20 pages in each, pretty good so far.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:05:42 2014 No.5793054 >>5793017 >I can't find it now how convenient

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:07:29 2014 No.5793064 >>5788355 This, how can you even read that shit? Must be uncomfortable as hell.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:08:52 2014 No.5793079 >>5792900 >getting surprised a polish author is racist kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:09:20 2014 No.5793081 >>5793054 Yes, I am obligated to think critically for you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:10:09 2014 No.5793085 >>5791195 Not me personally, but most of the country is, yes. (And who the fuck is this Roman)

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:14:03 2014 No.5793102 >>5793064 This is a materialistic "i just bought book, yay!" thread. He's not going to read it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:18:19 2014 No.5793124 File: 1.09 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5789293 Here's the edition of the 1890 Dorian Gray along with the 1891 version I have, which also has De Profundis and Ballad of Reading Gaol.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:31:40 2014 No.5793206 >>5788378 That cover really doesn't fit the content of the book. But enjoy dude, it's an excellent read

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 18:55:24 2014 No.5793320 >>5793124 >uncensored what was censored?

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 19:04:22 2014 No.5793346

>>5789291
>Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
bought it. its a hefty book so i've been put off from reading it. i want to soon. burgess is a great writer, but not so much as a thinker. im hoping this book works better than the wanting seed.

clockwork orange was nice tho

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 19:10:30 2014 No.5793370

>>5793320
According to Wikipedo 500 words were removed:

(Basil about Dorian) "He has stood as Paris in dainty armour, and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and polished boar-spear. Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms, he has sat on the prow of Adrian's barge, looking into the green, turbid Nile. He has leaned over the still pool of some Greek woodland, and seen in the water's silent silver the wonder of his own beauty."

(Lord Henry describes “fidelity”) "It has nothing to do with our own will. It is either an unfortunate accident, or an unpleasant result of temperament."

"You don't mean to say that Basil has got any passion or any romance in him?" / "I don't know whether he has any passion, but he certainly has romance," said Lord Henry, with an amused look in his eyes. / "Has he never let you know that?" / "Never. I must ask him about it. I am rather surprised to hear it."

(Basil Hallward described) "Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness."

(Basil to Dorian) "It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country."

(Basil confronts Dorian) "Dorian, Dorian, your reputation is infamous. I know you and Harry are great friends. I say nothing about that now, but surely you need not have made his sister's name a by-word." (The first part of this passage was deleted from the 1890 magazine text; the second part of the passage was inserted to the 1891 novel text.)

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 19:25:03 2014 No.5793453 >>5793370 so they cut the gay stuff

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 19:26:53 2014 No.5793462 >>5793320 Some text was removed for being too gay or too Decadent. The 1891 version is actually longer because Wilde had to add in a different way to make the book more audience friendly than the original. Yeah, the 1890 is better in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 19:27:56 2014 No.5793470 >>5793462 Basically anything with James Vane trying to kill Dorian because of Sybil's suicide was added to the 1891, to be more specific.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 20:08:05 2014 No.5793700 >>5793102 People are actually talking about books in here, it's more than just showing off purchases and has always been.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 20:15:41 2014 No.5793748 >>5793102 >He's not going to read it. >making a claim that you can't prove Pitiful.

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 20:54:02 2014 No.5793986
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>>5788635
My masturbatory Barnes and Noble Collection is vastly superior. I don't actually read any of them as reading is a faggot concept. But I do enjoy rubbing the leather bindings into my face to absorb their power.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:05:52 2014 No.5794053 >>5793986 >>5793991 Those covers look great individually, but when they're lined up like that it looks incredibly chaotic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:08:08 2014 No.5794067 >>5794053 Was thinking the same thing. I'm OP, and I don't really see anything terrible looking with the leather hardcover of C&P, I just wish the Barnes and Noble logo wasn't on the bottom of the title page.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:12:27 2014 No.5794093 >>5794067 Just went and opened my copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare to see. I don't mind it. Have you considered lining up the books in an order which has similar colours grouped together?

>>	zugzwang Sat Nov 29 21:14:31 2014 No.5794103 File: 1.62 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] just starting to get into literature how are these?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:15:47 2014 No.5794108 >>5789368 Couldn't you just go to the superior- I mean, American Amazon site and have it delivered to Germany? I live in America and I get books from Amazon.Bongland all the time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:18:15 2014 No.5794123 >>5794103 Thank you for my broken neck. Looks like a good start. The most important thing when getting into literature is actually opening the book and reading, anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:18:23 2014 No.5794125 >>5794103 They're pretty difficult, especially when you're reading them upside down. >>5793991 Dune is objectively best B&N cover.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:20:21 2014 No.5794132 >>5794125 >Dune is objectively best B&N cover. I think you should check your data source. Mine says the cover for The Art of WAR is best.

Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:28:36 2014 No.5794184
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>>5794132
I mean, It's clean and simple, but it's nowhere near as good as Dune's
Every time I pick up Dune I feel like I have acquired some ancient wizard's tome full of knowledge and power.

>>	zugzwang Sat Nov 29 21:36:08 2014 No.5794224 File: 1.61 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] [test] also how much did everyone spend on books for black friday?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:37:50 2014 No.5794229 >>5794184 Both covers are the best for their books. I suppose my objectivity simply prefers simplicity.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 21:45:55 2014 No.5794285 >>5794229 I will agree to this. Dune being a fantasy needs a more fantastic cover, but The Art of War would need a simple one as it is based in reality. They're apples and oranges and such.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 23:17:35 2014 No.5794773 >>5788335 How much did you pay for that C&P?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 23:36:06 2014 No.5794830 >>5794093 I don't really worry about the colors when they're on the shelf. I alphabetize everything by author last names.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 23:37:13 2014 No.5794832 >>5794224 OP here. everything in the pic was ~$60.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 29 23:52:29 2014 No.5794910 >>5794773 Twelve dollars.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 00:03:12 2014 No.5794948 >>5794894 welcome to /lit/, everyone here are materialistic whores. feel free to visit >>5788335

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 00:06:10 2014 No.5794964 >>5794948 Oh, so you don't own any books?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 00:47:01 2014 No.5795131 >>5788679 Punk bitch

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 03:50:46 2014 No.5795698 >>5788679 >Implying I would spend money on something I don't plan on reading.

>>	Not Op Sun Nov 30 04:03:09 2014 No.5795735 >>5794948 >Look guys, I said it again!

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 04:21:22 2014 No.5795767 >>5794224 probably about $80 in the past two weeks waiting for a dickload of stuff to arrive from Abebooks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 04:32:13 2014 No.5795785 >>5794103 fucking aussies.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 14:21:26 2014 No.5797671 >>5788365 >place hold on Crime & Punishment at library >no info on what edition >go to pick it up >Wordsworth Classics gawdamitbobbeh.jpeg

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 14:22:36 2014 No.5797681 >>5788503 is As I Lay Dying a good intro to Faulkner?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 14:24:08 2014 No.5797693 >>5788635 >that Gravitys Rainbow edition Damn right we are going to have fun insulting you

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 14:26:02 2014 No.5797710 >>5788635 oh, wow, i had no idea that Tolkien wrote Beowulf. I didn't think he had anything bigger than Lord of the Rings

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 14:38:07 2014 No.5797777 No pics sorry /lit/ approve of me anyways Madame Bovary No Exit and Three Other Plays The Things They Carried The Trial S.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 20:56:36 2014 No.5799782 >>5788635 top three I have and read, damn good books. Long but good. Beowolf, have it somewhere. Just never got around to it. Bought more books then I can read.

Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:10:03 2014 No.5799857

Now that I think of it, yeah I did get some stuff recently.
>Libra, Delillo
>The Illiad, Lattimore
>Changing of Light At Sandover, Merrill
>2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke
>Demian, Hesse
>The Man In The High Castle, Dick
>Satyricon, Petronius
>Being and Nothingness, Sartre
>Critique of Pure Reason, Kant
>Death In Venice, Mann
>Silmarillion, Tolkien (really don't plan on reading it anytime soon, just got it for completion's sake)
Got that all for six burgerbucks. And that was just the last library sale I went to.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:11:51 2014 No.5799869 >>5790654 I would say start with Entropy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:32:15 2014 No.5799958 >>5797710 Please, dear god, don't be serious.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:38:12 2014 No.5799986 File: 197 KB, 1280x720, WIN_20141127_111645.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here are some I picked up earlier last week. Bottom left is 'Arabian Nights'

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:45:37 2014 No.5800031 File: 1.89 MB, 3264x2448, .jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] r8 my t8ste, /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:50:06 2014 No.5800059 >>5800031 I'd reckon you don't have taste m8

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:51:17 2014 No.5800065 >>5800031 tips fedora

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:52:10 2014 No.5800071 >>5789291 >Feyerabend >Q I know this post is 2 days old but I wanna be your friend

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 21:57:47 2014 No.5800101 >>5800031 Atlas Shrugged and Sagan are the only things worth reading there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 22:02:41 2014 No.5800135 >>5800101 max i mum keke

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 22:06:09 2014 No.5800153 >>5792830 Charming woman. What's the problem?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 22:06:09 2014 No.5800154 >>5792850 bullshit you twat. Conrad is a thoroughgoing racist and you know it

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 22:09:36 2014 No.5800170 File: 229 KB, 960x720, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got these yesterday at The Book Loft in Columbus Ohio

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 30 22:13:58 2014 No.5800187 >>5800135 m' i mm kke

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 00:13:57 2014 No.5800685 >>5788335 You're in for some good shit with Watership Down, don't know why /lit/ never talks about it, deepest lore

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 00:16:27 2014 No.5800695 >>5800685 The ending made me feel so good about life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 00:19:27 2014 No.5800707 >>5800685 /lit/ is made up of try hard philosophy undergraduates.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 00:29:24 2014 No.5800747 File: 1.13 MB, 2448x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5792954 Here's a photo of this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 00:33:37 2014 No.5800764 File: 1.99 MB, 400x242, b57.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5800747 >Story of the Eye

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 01:02:26 2014 No.5800866 >>5800695 "Silflay Hraka Embleer-rah!"

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 01:05:28 2014 No.5800873 >>5800747 STANDING AT A SWEDISH FESTIVAL

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 01:07:03 2014 No.5800876 >>5800873 Can we not

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 01:10:58 2014 No.5800888 >>5800747 Make sure you read some of Bataille's philosophy along with Story of the Eye to not just see it as pointless porn.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 01:46:17 2014 No.5800990 >>5800876 MONTREAL O N T R E A L

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 08:49:01 2014 No.5801864 >>5800747 The Savage Detectives is great, enjoy

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 08:56:30 2014 No.5801890 >>5788606 It's literally the same thing

Anonymous Mon Dec 1 09:01:37 2014 No.5801901

>>5788635
Haha holy fuck I wouldn't ever borrow a book from you

>borrow a book
>walk into library to read
>librarian gives me disgusted sneer
>starts booing
>herds of black people on the computers start jeering like monkeys
>white nerdy kids start hissing and spitting
>they surround me and chant "ug-ly book! ug-ly book!"
>start shooting spitwads at me
>covered in wet paper and saliva
>go blind, fall down
>be kicked repeatedly
>book is laid on my body and burnt as an offering

Yeah no thanks i would rather not

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 09:13:28 2014 No.5801924 >>5792785 Conrad's one of those authors that you need to read twice to get if you're not acquainted with his style. I didn't like HOD on my first read-through either, now I love it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 09:29:25 2014 No.5801945 >>5793991 >>5793986 Ugh absolute fucking shit Kill yourself Reddit.com/r/bookshelf you fucking dick loving queer

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 09:30:26 2014 No.5801949 >>5794184 Plebeshit/8 you faggot Book looks terrible

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 09:32:48 2014 No.5801958 Today I got: The Magic Mountain-Thomas Mann Dune: Messiah Children of Dune I was either going to get the Mann book or Snow Country since it's starting to get to that wintery time of year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 09:37:50 2014 No.5801970 File: 417 KB, 1200x900, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey guys I just came from reddit and thought this thread looked fun :-) Please rate my books! And no trolling ;-P

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 11:58:13 2014 No.5802450 >>5801970 There is so much in that picture that bothers me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 12:02:28 2014 No.5802474 >>5801970 nice desk tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 12:04:33 2014 No.5802486 File: 222 KB, 1920x1080, 9b2af4b7-8e8a-4c83-88be-195542323.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's been through a lot

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 12:12:26 2014 No.5802536 "Grapes of Wrath", "Dune", "The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginner", and "Heart of Darkness" are currently in my Amazon cart. Should I confirm my order?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 19:09:57 2014 No.5804556 >>5793064 They're really not that uncomfortable to read. My copy of War and Peace is absolutely beat to shit (mass market paperback, I was poor OK) as are my Foundation books, so I might just pick up the B&N edition of them.

Anonymous Mon Dec 1 19:26:33 2014 No.5804623

Didn't want to make a thread on it, but I'm wondering about my fellow /lit/izens' opinions of pic related? I've heard very little about it but I'm considering getting it soon. Is it worthy of a high spot on my to-read list? What did you like/dislike about it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 1 19:27:38 2014 No.5804631 File: 25 KB, 308x475, patagonia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5804623 I always forget the fucking pic.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 02:12:02 2014 No.5806193 >>5788451 >Blue is the Warmest Color >>>/tumblr/

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 05:07:12 2014 No.5806491 File: 94 KB, 561x554, books2dec.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5788335 >today got these on Saturday. £1 each apart from the McCarthy, which was priced at an eye-watering £1.45.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 05:46:16 2014 No.5806548 >>5800101 >sagan >worth reading inflict death upon self

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 06:56:15 2014 No.5806661 >>5800747 i live near the blaskets

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 07:02:39 2014 No.5806682 >>5806491 >Monkey Wrench Gang Night Moves, or actually interested in environmentalist literature?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 07:04:38 2014 No.5806690 >All these fags reading paperbacks

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 07:04:44 2014 No.5806691 The Public Burning Twenty Seventh City The Fortress of Solitude (how is Lethem, especially this? It was given to me as a gift.)

Anonymous Tue Dec 2 07:08:00 2014 No.5806696
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I found this box in the road.
>The Complete Theatrical works of Beckett, Brave New World, The Freud Reader, Kafka's Trial, Camus' The Outsider, Complete Oxford Shakespeare, Fear & Loathing, Naked Lunch, Brecht's Jungle of Cities and other plays, Shantaram, Watchmen, Zizek's The Fright of Real Tears, The Communist Manifesto, Conrad's The Secret Agent, Huysmans' Against Nature, I am Legend, Walter Benjamin's Illuminations, Choose your own adventure 32 (Treasure Diver), Enid Blyton's The Three Golliwogs, Jansson's A Winter Book and some anthology of Punk Rock inspired short stories.
There was another box but the books were all junk so I left it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 09:52:24 2014 No.5806996 The Strange Library came out today, swung by Barnes and Noble and picked it up first thing in the morning.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 09:55:08 2014 No.5807002 File: 60 KB, 400x300, rim-shot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5806696 If that's the good box, I'd hate to see the other one!

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 10:01:27 2014 No.5807022 File: 884 KB, 2592x1456, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5807002 Looks like most of the other one has been taken now. Here's what's left.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 10:03:14 2014 No.5807027 File: 59 KB, 470x345, 1363676701522.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5800071 Thanks, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 10:19:06 2014 No.5807056 >>5806696 Pretty lucky find anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 10:35:06 2014 No.5807093 >>5806696 >Choose your own adventure 32 (Treasure Diver) helly jelly

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 12:38:35 2014 No.5807469 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXDF_0bVpP4

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 12:56:27 2014 No.5807536 >>5794103 I like you. >>5793124 And you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:00:00 2014 No.5807549 File: 66 KB, 263x821, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just trying to read some more books from the sticky because why not

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:03:39 2014 No.5807565 book sale at uni. $11 in total.

>>	Anonimaj Tue Dec 2 13:08:10 2014 No.5807589 File: 1.37 MB, 2448x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5800747 Same Person as this, just today bought this for $8.50 from my local library. 1/4

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:09:57 2014 No.5807598 File: 2.06 MB, 2448x3264, IMG-20141125-WA0013.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5807565 Forgot to attach file.

>>	Anonimaj Tue Dec 2 13:09:59 2014 No.5807600 File: 2.78 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5807589 2/4

>>	Anonimaj Tue Dec 2 13:11:50 2014 No.5807607 File: 1.47 MB, 2448x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5807600 Okay, fuck this phone 3/4

>>	Anonimaj Tue Dec 2 13:14:07 2014 No.5807613 File: 1.64 MB, 2448x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5807607 4/4 sorry about the upside down one, if anyone cares enough to see I'll post them again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:14:17 2014 No.5807614 >>5800170 how is Debt? I saw it and was thinking of getting it, but i read some of the first chapter and the narrator sounded like he was part of some crazy hippie cult.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:17:09 2014 No.5807626 >>5807598 >Mishima. >Moncrieff. You did alright.

Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:21:47 2014 No.5807640
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>>5807626
Here it is with only the spines, or, how I should have done it. Also, sorry for being solipsistic. I know how dumps can kill these threads.
>>5807598
I'm 90% sure I also have that edition of Eco. Good choice of Mishima, that's one of his best.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:27:55 2014 No.5807664 File: 1.64 MB, 2448x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5807640 Im much more interested in the collection on the right than on the left.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:28:18 2014 No.5807666 >>5807640 I had read Confessions... earlier. Wanted to own a physical copy because of how brilliant it is. Recommendations for the next Mishima?

Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:34:41 2014 No.5807700

>>5807027
You've actually reminded to get 54 on MY recent purchases, so:

On the mail:
A Void, Georges Perec
54, Wu Ming
Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth
Vineland and Bleeding Edge, David Foster Wallace
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino

Also, being a huge plebmaster who goes out, physically bought Savage Detectives by Chespirito (RIP) and Lights in August by Faulkner.

Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:36:19 2014 No.5807707

>>5807666
Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Spring Snow, and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Maybe put off Spring Snow until you want to go through the Sea of Fertility group. He also has a good number of short stories, if you're interested in those.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:39:53 2014 No.5807723 >>5807640 damn that copy of the aeneid is violated

Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:42:11 2014 No.5807737

>>5807723
I'm taking that as a sign that the guy really enjoyed it. It's always fun to see where people get with their paperbacks before selling them. In this case, looks like they got all the way through, and maybe even reread it before donating to the library. I have a copy of The Brothers Karamazov where you can tell exactly where someone stopped reading and sold it off.

>>	B) Tue Dec 2 13:43:45 2014 No.5807743 >>5807700 Those Barth and Calvino books are great.

Anonymous Tue Dec 2 13:58:55 2014 No.5807801

>>5807743
Quick question: How much would I lose for not reading Barth and Faulkner in english?

I've got Lost in the Funhouse in english, but I really want to read the Sot-Weed Factor and found a reasonably priced copy in portuguese, and that Faulkner is from a very VERY sexy collection in portuguese that I plan to buy in the near future.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 14:08:37 2014 No.5807836 >>5791168 >Lezen in het nederlands >plaatje van djorj koostansa

Anonymous Tue Dec 2 14:18:20 2014 No.5807884

not today but this weekend i picked up our man in Havana (my first graham Greene book, what the fuck am i in for?), and the first part of the translyvania trilogy by miklos banffy. no idea what im in for on either count, but have to finish brothers k first anyway (which ive only just started).

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 15:40:34 2014 No.5808212 >>5788635 dem bricks of shit myriad pages full of second-rate fiction ridiculous waste of money wow

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 15:53:09 2014 No.5808258 File: 2.26 MB, 2592x1936, IMG_0080.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i have no idea what to read first

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 16:02:13 2014 No.5808293 >>5788335 I need a book like Walden but replace transcendentalism with Marxism

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 2 16:30:01 2014 No.5808379 >>5788335 Yes, long time since my last purchase. I got On War by Carl von Clausewitz anf Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

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