RECENT PICKUPS/PURCHASES THREAD

[Anonymous No.6317150]

Post your recent purchases and start the eventual thread derailment that ends with everybody calling each other a bunch of illiterate faggots

[Anonymous No.6317173]

why that ugly asz BM cover :(

[Anonymous No.6317194]

>>6317173
Only edition the store had that wasn't chewed up.

The Dubliners print is sorta weird. The title on the cover is just a sticker.

[Anonymous No.6317200]

>>6317194

[Anonymous No.6317201]

>>6317194
>>6317194
i see
that cover seems to be popular
enjoy the book

[Anonymous No.6317214]

>>6317200
Maybe it's when he eats nice peas from a cafe. I had a craving for peas after that and ate a lot of them in the subsequent weeks.

[Anonymous No.6317231]

>>6317150
i wanted to read lucifer hammer but seems to trashy for me.

[Anonymous No.6317243]

>>6317150
I've read the middle four and really liked all of them. Good pickup.

[Anonymous No.6317272]

R8 me /lit/.

[Anonymous No.6317291]

>>6317272
Are these Nietzsche translations any good? I find the books in that collection way more than I find actual portuguese translations

[Anonymous No.6317326]

>>6317291
they are pretty hit and miss, most are old translations.

[Anonymous No.6317349]

only one recent purchase, but it's a pretty rare book

[Anonymous No.6317355]

>>6317349
back is great

[Anonymous No.6317360]

>>6317349
>>6317355
NOICE.

[Anonymous No.6317385]

GO TO A FUCKING LIBRARY YOU POSER CUNTS

[Anonymous No.6317390]

>>6317385
make me bitchboi.

[Anonymous No.6317399]

>>6317385
are you the guy who farts out the gotothelibrary pasta every day?

[Anonymous No.6317402]

>>6317349
>>6317355
That's sexy as fuck

Mine:

Agamben: The Open, Nudities
Benjamin: (bunch of compilations, so I'm not sure they're compiled with the same titles in english) The Angel of History, Selected Works I, The Origins of German Drama, One Way Street
Foucault: A compilation of essays on Aesthethics and Art
Michael Löwy: Romantism and Messianism
Eco: The Forms of Content
Borges: The Book of Sand
Jamba Juice: Ulysses (original and translated), Dubliners
Antonio Callado: Quarup
Francis Allys: In a Given Situation
Bergson: The Creative Evolution, Matter and Memory
collection of essays by Anne Coquelin

r8 me /lit/

[Anonymous No.6317404]

Where does weaboonese genre fiction put me on the pleb-scale?

[Anonymous No.6317486]

The Road (~70 pages left)
At the Mountains of Madness
Animal Farm
Things Fall Apart
Heart of Darkness

Ironically, I got a library card *after* buying four books (the latter four) that are each <=200 pages.

[Anonymous No.6317524]

>>6317150
vintage is goat

[Anonymous No.6318831]

Got these hardbacks for 10e:
J.M. Coetzee - Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee - Summertime
J.G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun
Modiano - A Trace of Malice

[Anonymous No.6319000]

Biocentrism by some guy

Cusp and Gongwanadon by Thomas Herpich

[Anonymous No.6319433]

muh pickups

[Anonymous No.6319437]

>>6317150
You just bought what /lit/ told you to buy...

[Anonymous No.6319492]

>>6317150
mmm Dandelion Wine is what got me back into reading this year. I read it while home over winter break, and although I had read it as a kid, it was a very warm and fulfilling read. Enjoy. I'm looking forward to reading Blood Meridian sometime soon.

[Anonymous No.6319547]

>>6319437
what if he just started reading you cunt or he hasn't read those books you cretin

[Anonymous No.6319615]

???

[Anonymous No.6319630]

I ordered these near the start of the month and the last two arrived today so I'm reposting them, partly because the only response I got was "zaggin" which I didn't really understand the intended meaning of.

[Anonymous No.6319648]

>buying new books that've been in print for years.
You should've paid no more than $9 for those books, cunt, pls get raped nice and hard up your ass, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6319684]

>>6317404
Somewhat less pleb than light novel readers.
Considerably less pleb than those people who actually buy anime novelizations.

[Anonymous No.6319695]

>>6319630
Zaggin

[Anonymous No.6319753]

How did I do?

[Anonymous No.6319799]

>>6319753
I like Oxford. Fuck Penguin mang.

[Anonymous No.6319951]

>>6319648
So I can have tattered and worn down copies like yourself?

lolnothx

Nice books though. Faggot.

>>6319630
>Jeff Noon
>Pollen

I assume you read Vurt then? You might be a little let down with Pollen, but it's hard to live up to the first in the series.

>>6319437
Admittedly, Dubliners and somewhat McCarthy (I've been reading him recently, but /lit/ is basically what pushed me to buy BM specifically). The others aren't really discussed here that often other than Kafka, but I didn't buy that one because of /lit/'s opinion.

[Anonymous No.6319970]

>>6319630
Zaggin Niggaz backwards, fam.

[Anonymous No.6319976]

>>6319951
>tattered and worn down.

you are such an autistic cum catching 2-bit whore.

[Anonymous No.6319982]

>>6319951

>obsessed with the physical condition of books

ha-ha, you fucking nerd.

[Anonymous No.6319988]

>>6319982

[Anonymous No.6319989]

>>6319976
nice book... gotta write an important essay on it for your 10th grade English class i assume.

[Anonymous No.6319994]

>>6319433
so how about that henry james fellow?

[Anonymous No.6320003]

Rating each other based on the books you've bought, not even read. Incredible.

[Anonymous No.6320004]

>>6319989

exactly, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6320010]

>>6320003
>Rating each other based on the books you've bought, not even read. Incredible.
why buy a book though unless youve read it and really liked it

[Anonymous No.6320014]

>>6320010
FUCK OFF, COMMIE!

[Anonymous No.6320018]

>>6320010
Are you really implying that's what most of the people here have done?

[Anonymous No.6320044]

>>6319976
>>6319982
Yeahhhh, see, I'm not a greedy shekel hoarder, so I'm gonna go ahead and go with the book that wasn't chewed on by an ape and scribbled in by toddlers for a negligible price difference.

Enjoy your crumbling collection.

[Anonymous No.6320199]

>>6320044

it's all about the aesthetics, retard. Have fun spending all your hard earned $ on book with shit-tier topography that cost 2 cents to make, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6320241]

>>6317150
this nigga paid for these books. like 10 million used copies floating around you faggot

[Anonymous No.6320291]

>>6320199
Maybe you can't afford it as a discount male hooker, but spending a few hundred bucks a year on a hobby doesn't break the bank at all.

[Anonymous No.6320317]

>>6320241
ikr? op is such a fucking loser.

>>6320291
if you're too autistic to support local 2nd book stores I literally hope you kill yourself.
>Maybe you can't afford it as a discount male hooker, but spending a few hundred bucks a year on a hobby doesn't break the bank at all.
What is that. like 15 books? fucking pleb....

[Anonymous No.6320336]

>>6320291
you're probably too autistic to go to an actual book store and look around. You're the type of cunt who goes to Barnes & Noble and asks an employee if they have a specific title, and then you hold his hand on the way to the bookshelf it sits on, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6320357]

R8 me

[Anonymous No.6320370]

>>6320357
>on the road
>penguin classic
absolute fucking disgusting/10

[Anonymous No.6320390]

>>6320317
>>6320336
I buy about 50 books a year and spend well under $500. Sometimes I buy new, sometimes I buy used (from online retailers or HPB, not some local shitshack). Keep up the buttmad though.

I don't care that I'm not the 32nd owner of the long lost Flaugenmeister 1st Edition Limited Print with a foreword by Hitler's retarded uncle with cover art done by a trained elephant. Sounds like you're the one raising the autism bar here, not me.

I like the words in the books. Print edition and cover art is usually irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.6320407]

>>6320390
to long didn't read. nice unnecessarily gigantic response, fag-lord. have fun with your shit-ass new books made by some jew who's literally pulling money of your pocket, fag.
>pic related
it's an 1882 edition Paradise Lost illustrated by Gustave Dore, good luck finding one somewhere other than your "local shitshack", you autistic fuck face retard.

[Anonymous No.6320452]

>>6320407
>Too long didn't read
Fair enough, that's what I expected from someone who masturbates into hundred year old books instead of reading them

Paradise Lost is one of the rare exceptions where you don't want to indiscriminately buy a copy and you know that. Either way I can buy it on Ebay if I really want to. Shitshacks are outdated and overrated.

Join the 21st century grandpa, it's pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.6320514]

>>6319648
Great taste.
Read some Eliade when you finish this.

[Anonymous No.6320566]

>>6317150

>lucifer's hammer

Prepare for bad writing. I wish I knew a good book about comet disasters.

>>6320357

we have the same Ficciones and The Road.

[Anonymous No.6320609]

>>6319994
He pretty gud. His notebooks are a treat to read. Sketches of unused plots, dialogue, a lot of goodies.

[Anonymous No.6320616]

There you go /lit/
I'm excited

[Anonymous No.6320628]

just picked up freire's pedagogy of the oppressed for a quarter and perception and misperception in international politics by robert jervis for a buck

and since this is a tweet thread: just finished pic related

[Anonymous No.6320655]

>>6320616
>There Will Come Soft Rains
Why didn't you just buy the Martian Chronicles? There whole book is good, you know

[Anonymous No.6320662]

>>6320655
I had no idea. I'm not really an expert on literature
Mainly read King, Lovecraft, Grisham, Crichton, Flynn and am slowly expanding .
I don't have any knowledge of sci-fi lit.
thanks for the info.

[Anonymous No.6320663]

>>6320357
fuckin hate that Ficciones cover. cheapest one though

[Anonymous No.6320691]

Just picked up a copy of The Master and Margarita.

This will be my first foray into Russian literature.

[Anonymous No.6320719]

>>6320691
You've never read Chekhov?

[Anonymous No.6320723]

>>6320719
Never in my life. I am only just now starting to read again.

[Anonymous No.6320797]

>>6320723

Nice. If you wanna read some brilliant short stories pick up Anton Chekhov translated by Constance Garnett.

[Anonymous No.6322108]

>>6317404
Is from the new world any good?

[Anonymous No.6322110]

>>6317404
Why did you buy only part of the japanese novels?

[Anonymous No.6322127]

>>6320797
>Constance Garnett.
Is this a joke? Literally anyone is better than her.

[Anonymous No.6322165]

>>6320616
>when you get to Dostoyevsky's parable

[Anonymous No.6322306]

>>6322108
I've barely started the second part, but it's a fun enough read so far. Not a huge fan of all the long passages of exposition, though, and I think the author's take on the development of society post-apocalypse seems pretty unbelievable. My Japanese isn't good enough to criticise the prose etc.

>>6322110
A friend gave me the first parts of those two. I actually bought the third part of 新世界より as well, but forgot to include it.

[Anonymous No.6322348]

>>6317150
Few weeks ago. Only read Hamlet so far, Portrait was a re-buy. Still finishing White Teeth and Helmet for my Pillow before I start on the Hindi and Buddha shit.

[Anonymous No.6322353]

>>6317150
Can you show me the cover of Hemingway?
Don't think I've ever seen that one.

[Anonymous No.6322371]

Invisible Man
Animal Farm
Set Theory and The Continuum Hypothesis
Los Detectives Salvages
Clockwork Orange
Fahrenheit 451
Blood Meridian
Ordinary Differential Equations
Euclid's Elements

I'm newish to literature, so I'm rereading the books I should have read in high school but ignored (Invisible Man, Fahrenheit, etc)

[Anonymous No.6322375]

>>6322348
>a rebuy
why was that?
>>6322371
That is actually good, but blood meridian is tedious.

[Anonymous No.6322380]

>>6322375
Because the other one I had was a piece of shit to read. Signet Classics. Garbage books.

[Anonymous No.6323471]

>>6317194
>The Dubliners print is sorta weird. The title on the cover is just a sticker.

Canongate does that in their "Canons" series - I have a copy of Knut Hamsun's Hunger that's the same (ISBN 9780857861795).

[Anonymous No.6323523]

I was going to pick up a copy of "as I lay dying" but it said corrected version.
I was unaware that there was more than one version of the book so I didn't buy it.

[Anonymous No.6323538]

>>6317150

Mine. As you can probably tell, these were sale buys (except the Sade) - I absolutely would not have bought the Toomer for the list price ($95!), but it had been reduced and reduced again, to about the price of two mass market paperback novels.

[Anonymous No.6323544]

>>6319970
Yea blud but does it communicate?

>>6319951
I've read Vurt and Automated Alice, and already finished Pollen. You're correct but I enjoyed it all the same. I'll probably get the next one, too.

[Anonymous No.6323760]

>>6320609
>reading for plot

[Anonymous No.6323795]

>>6323538
Have you picked up the Almagest yet? I heard about it in my astronomy class a few years ago but I never got into looking the primary sources.

[Anonymous No.6323834]

Is there anything more disappointing than meeting an "intellectual" who reads nothing but fiction?

[Anonymous No.6324127]

>>6323795

Haven't had a chance yet - only got these about a week ago.