NEW COPS

[Anonymous No.6352624]

got all this for 2 bux a piece. the guy was all like: "lul, you'd've paid like a $100 at chapters for all this shit, mang."

[Anonymous No.6352631]

>>6352624
Have you read the rest of Jane Austen? Don't judge her by Mansfield Park.

[Anonymous No.6352632]

>>6352624
That's pretty expensive for used paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.6352642]

>>6352631
Nope. These are the first books of hers i'm gonna read. Are you saying Mansfield Park sucks ass, or something?
>>6352632
not around here. average price for used paperback is $5, I'd rather pitch for a g of dank nugs.

[Anonymous No.6352683]

>>6352642
>Mansfield Park sucks ass
I thought it did. The main character just didn't have the spark other Austen heroines show.

Some insist that the book's flaws were introduced on purpose to challenge the reader or as comedy. I didn't see it, but it's possible.

Don't let me scare you away from it, but if you don't like it it doesn't imply you won't enjoy the top tier of P&P, Emma and Northanger Abbey.

[Anonymous No.6352691]

>>6352632
>2$ a book
no it's not

[Anonymous No.6352707]

I went to Barnes and Noble with my mom and bought The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (pic related).
Have to read this by monday for my ENC 1102 class.
The main character is mentally and physically and deformed Native Indian attending a white highschool.

[Anonymous No.6352713]

>>6352642
>>6352691
It is expensive. I can reasonably expect to find such books for 50p (that's 75c) here in the UK.

[Anonymous No.6352717]

>>6352707
You must have checked the fuck out of that privilege.

[Anonymous No.6352721]

>>6352707
I'm Native and went to a white highschool. Had to kick ass every single day. I was never the one to instigated a fight though. Fucking white people, fuck you guys.

[Anonymous No.6352723]

>>6352707
Jesus, it's like the author is desperate as fuck to make you feel bad about the character. That's lame as shit.

[Anonymous No.6352729]

>>6352721
nice fantasy, tonto. you should write a book.

[Anonymous No.6352731]

>>6352717
All day every day.
pic related
>>6352721
Well, you'd probably identify with the retarded kid then lol. He's gettin his ass whooped fightin all the time too.
>>6352723
Isn't it? Near all the readings in my class are like this.

[Anonymous No.6352737]

>>6352713
I know that feeling. I just got the Parallel Lives by Plutarch in really kickass old hardcover for just 2€.

[Anonymous No.6352739]

>>6352721
>tfw the white man memes with a forked tongue

[Anonymous No.6352741]

>>6352729
lol
>tonto
One of the many illustrations from the book.
Kid's an artist too. Smartest kid on the "rez"

[Anonymous No.6352755]

>>6352624
But those are books

[Anonymous No.6352762]

>>6352729
You poor little impotent teenage boy. Is writing things like that how you get to feel more like a man? Go and tell your mother that you tried to hurt someones feelings on the internet, I'm sure she would be proud of you. She is certainly the only person who ever will be.
I stabbed a moose to death with a knife tied to a tree I broke in half when I was 15, you probably still slept with your parents at that age, you little scoundrel.

[Anonymous No.6352765]

>>6352737
My most recent get was an 1871 three-volume set of Carlyle's history of the French Revolution for £9 (~$13). Not the cheapest but I bet the same set in the US would've cost much more.

Pic related: not my copies but they're the same editions as mine.

[Anonymous No.6352766]

>>6352624
Dubliners and the Plague are highly worth reading. Sartre is the poor man's Camus, Candide is alright if you like your philosophy served with a side of smug, and throw Austen into the trash

[Anonymous No.6352772]

>>6352713
I work at a second hand bookshop (albeit in central London) and 50p for a (well sought after) paperback is unheard of.

[Anonymous No.6352777]

>>6352772
How much do you guys sell Anchor paperbacks with topography by Edward Gorey?

[Anonymous No.6352782]

>>6352765
Nice! I Where do you live?

[Anonymous No.6352783]

>>6352772
As you suggested, being in central London (or any other city, especially a major one) will drive up the price a bit; as will the establishment being an actual bookshop, no doubt. I live in a modest Scottish town and do most of my bookhunting in charity shops ("thrift stores" to our American friends).

[Anonymous No.6352785]

>>6352777
it depends entirely on what price abe books list it for, usually just under that price.

[Anonymous No.6352786]

>>6352782
See >>6352783!

[Anonymous No.6352787]

>>6352741

>all the girls ignored me

That's what happens when you're ugly.

>some of the guys called me names

Yep, sounds about right.

>they thought i was a killer

I guess that's the kind of thing you need to tell yourself.

[Anonymous No.6352789]

>>6352762

[Anonymous No.6352797]

>>6352783
Yeah charity shops in London / most places I've visited tend to stock mainly either genre fiction or YA, but I have found a few gems. I get most of my clothing from them though, they're usually fantastic.

[Anonymous No.6352798]

>>6352707
I liked this book though. I'm surprised you're reading it in college english classes but it was enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.6352799]

>>6352789lol

[Anonymous No.6352805]

>>6352765
nice. i'm stuck with the modern library paperback.

[Anonymous No.6352809]

>>6352789
>>6352799
I also killed 12 porcupines by smashing their heads with big rocks. fucking scoundrels. get off my land.

[Anonymous No.6352810]

>>6352798
Why'd you like it?

[Anonymous No.6352814]

Just ordered Shakespeare's Sonnets (Vintage Classics), Light in August (Vintage Classics), and The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt. It cost £13 including delivery (I'm housebound so thrift stores are out of the question for me) and two of the books are new, the other Very Good condition.

[Anonymous No.6352815]

Recent finds

[Anonymous No.6352816]

Mansfield Park is my least favorite Jane Austen novel I've read, but Persuasion is my favorite. Nice finds, though, OP. I'd have picked those up too.

[Anonymous No.6352830]

>>6352810
I had a few chuckles. It was not demanding at all so it was a good leisure read. People will be flustered over
>muh cuckoldry
But beyond that it was a fun read.

[Anonymous No.6352836]

>>6352797
My usual haunt mostly has modern paperbacks on their shelves but then, tucked underneath the bottom shelf, is a plastic container labelled "Antique Books". Judging by how often (within the same fortnight) I see the same books, I doubt many people take any notice of that container, so I get rich pickings for myself. Would that I could buy the lot!

[Anonymous No.6352839]

>>6352830
I haven't finished it. I'll keep what you said in mind, anon.

[Anonymous No.6352844]

got Samuel Pepys diary for $5 and Vicar of Wakefield for $3, too.

[Anonymous No.6352852]

>>6352765
>>6352844
In what condition are the actual pages of the book? And do they smell funny?

[Anonymous No.6352856]

>Buy copy of The Book of Enoch from Amazon
>It's a print-on-demand open source pdf

[Anonymous No.6352868]

>>6352852
the pages are all good except for Vicar, it has a folded corner on page 81. they smell pretty friggin' good.

[Anonymous No.6352870]

>>6352815
that is the most boring pile of books in the world

[Anonymous No.6352876]

>>6352870
Nah I disagree. Heidegger's works on Nietzsche are far from boring.

[Anonymous No.6352884]

>>6352852
The pages of mine -- Carlyle's history of the French Revolution -- are crisp and clean and don't smell very much of anything except old paper. The "old book smell" is very minimal. They were obviously kept in good conditions, and if read, read carefully.

[Anonymous No.6352887]

disgusting poorfags and their second hand books...

[Anonymous No.6352889]

>>6352870
You're just retarded.

[Anonymous No.6352895]

>>6352887
>Buying books by dead authors new
lel

[Anonymous No.6352900]

>>6352889
>the pleb thinks he's reading 'intelligent' literature

[Anonymous No.6352914]

>>6352887
>buying books that've been in print for years.
Lol. your mom probably holds your hand on the way to Chapters or some other predatory book retailer because she doesn't want you to get lost exploring your city for cool antiquarian book stores, you fucking loser.

[Anonymous No.6352960]

>>6352887
disgusting bourgeoisie scum thinking possessions are what is important in life

[Anonymous No.6352987]

>>6352895
>>6352960
better get of welfare and contribute to society, leeches.

[Anonymous No.6352992]

>>6352987

[Anonymous No.6353011]

Pic related for a whopping $8.60 earlier today.

I'm currently rereading The Illiad and The Odyssey and I don't know what happened to my copy of The Aeneid so I purchased a new one. It kind of bothers me though to think I'll spend at least a few days, maybe a week or more on The Odyssey (two jobs and drinking myself stupid every night cuts into my reading time) before getting to The Aeneid since it is also a follow-up to The Illiad. Thoughts on reading The Odyssey and The Aeneid simultaneously? I generally read two or three books at a time anyway.

[Anonymous No.6353013]

>>6352887
>not enjoying browsing second hand book stores
I bet you never explored as a kid.

[Anonymous No.6353025]

>>6353013
I explored my grandfathers library. He once had Umberto Eco over who did the same.

[Anonymous No.6353079]

>>6352815
Skip Heidegger's History of the Concept of Time, and just read Being and Time.

[Anonymous No.6353096]

>>6352707
We read a Sherman alexie book in 4th year English lit. Easy as shit and quite enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.6353118]

>>6352887
is that rik mayall

[Anonymous No.6353159]

>>6353118
Pollution
All around
Sometimes up
And sometimes down
But always around.
Pollution, are you coming to my town?
Or am I coming to yours?
We're on different buses, pollution
But we're both using petrol
Bombs.

[Anonymous No.6353172]

>>6352624
»Kosakkerne« by Leo Tolstoj (the Cossacks) printed 1910
»Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man« by James Joyce
»Candide« by Voltaire
»Frygt og Bæven« by Kierkegaard (Fear and Trembling) 1943 facsimile of the first edition in blackletter

50 dollars, which is not very much in denmark

[Anonymous No.6353192]

>>6353172
>han læser Tolstoj på dansk.

[Anonymous No.6353199]

>>6353192
Læser alt russisk litteratur på dansk; synes du ikke oversættelserne er tilstrækkelige?

[Anonymous No.6353256]

>>6352914
>>6352987
>being this mad on an image board for mongolian pictionary
you guys should step away from the computer for a bit
hanging out here all day isn't good for you

[Anonymous No.6353272]

>>6352987
how about no

[Anonymous No.6353353]

>>6352683

Austen thought Mansfield Park was her finest work and considered Fanny to be the heroine most like herself. It's not as cute as Emma or as romantic as Pride and Prejudice but it's fantastic.

[Anonymous No.6353381]

>>6353172
Could you post a pic of the Kierkegaard?

[Anonymous No.6353428]

>>6353381
i've only ordered it, but here's the title page

i expect to get it tuesday, will be exciting to see how hard it is to read an entire book in blackletter

[Anonymous No.6353444]

>>6352987
>society

Doesn't exist.

[Anonymous No.6353466]

>>6353428
>mfw Norwegian
>mfw can read Kierkegaard in original language because Danish imperialism destroyed my native language, and made it a dilute and provincial version of standard spoken Danish

I both hate you and think you're okay at the same time.

[Anonymous No.6353474]

>>6353466
>tfw danish
>tfw read hamsun and ibsen etc. in the original because they basically wrote danish

>tfw no denmark-norway
>tfw the perfidious swedes tore us apart

[Anonymous No.6353488]

>>6353474
>Dat pic

I lol'd.

Anyway, fuck Sverige.

[Anonymous No.6353504]

I received around one and a half dozen books of the International Collectors Library for free. Granted, they're poorly made and obviously cheap, but I haven't read any of them and free physical books are always nice.

[Anonymous No.6353824]

>>6353011
Do you think Odysseus intentionally crashed the ship with his crew in it?

[Anonymous No.6354333]

>>6352755
underrated post

[Anonymous No.6354376]

>>6352624
Candide is one of the only books that actually made me laugh out loud. Good stuff

[Anonymous No.6354468]

From a book sale, less than 2 usd for all, they even give me one for free.

>Can you guess winch one?

[Anonymous No.6354507]

Do yourself a favor and throw Austen in the garbage where she belongs.

[Anonymous No.6354916]

$12 at Half-Price

Child of God is pretty much brand new; Complete Stories is scuffed up but the pages are in good condition. I also like the page number format in Complete Stories: [XXX].

Not sure how I feel about the editions I ended up with though. Haven't been able to find much about the Kafka translator.

[Anonymous No.6355023]

>>6354916
That typographic cover is a burn after reading definitely.

[Anonymous No.6355051]

>>6353824
Its been several years since I've read it, I don't remember much about that part. What would support such an interpretation? Once I've
reread it maybe we can find each other on here and I'll have a good answer.

Gotta be the Zizek, nobody on /lit/ would have the balls to admit paying for his book. Everyone hear is afraid to go against the meme groupthink hatred for the man.

>>6354916
Have gone through several stories in the original German with someone who speaks fluent German. It was pretty awesome to hear him explain things about what Kafka is saying rather than just reading a translation.

Instead of just substituting one word for another, you get to hear "well this most closely translates to that, but it has these connotations", etc. Can change how you understand the stories.

[Anonymous No.6355068]

>>6355051
>Gotta be the Zizek, nobody on /lit/ would have the balls to admit paying for his book. Everyone hear is afraid to go against the meme groupthink hatred for the man.
This was meant for:
>>6354468

[Anonymous No.6355078]

>>6354916

I have that same Kafka. I've been trudging through it for months, and I dunno if it's the translator(s), but...jesus christ I've never read drier stories. I don't wanna knock Kafka himself too hard, but what I've read just isn't for me I don't think.

[Anonymous No.6355249]

>>6352815
Ignore the haters, OP, and embrace the Dasein

[Anonymous No.6355324]

>mfw I accept donations at a thrift store for a living
>mfw I sometimes get people dumping hundreds, even thousands of dollars worth of books at a time
>mfw when it's not all harlequin romance and Dean Koontz
>mfw I see some bookish looking person lugging a huge box of philosophy and literature out of their car
>mfw I am "the book guy" at work so I get to sort through all of what comes in first
>mfw my store has no policy about employees buying stock before its been out in the store (I just can't price anything I buy)
>mfw no one but me has any concept of how much 90% of the books (and video games) are worth
>mfw all softcovers are 50 cents each or 25 cents each if you buy 5, all hardcovers are $2 unless they are clearly valuable
>mfw I get a 50% discount on top of that

I have worked there for 6 years and I easily have a thousand books, mostly in good condition and I doubt if I payed more than $500 total. The best is when the University semester are over and you get retiring professors and stressed phd's looking to de-clutter. .

[Anonymous No.6356210]

>>6355324

mad jelly

[Anonymous No.6356272]

>>6355324
damn I want that job

[Anonymous No.6356330]

>>6354468
>Tomas Moro

[Anonymous No.6356428]

>>6352624
I've never paid more that $0.50 for used paperback classics at thrift stores. You paid too much.

It's been a while since I've bought any actually, but the last ones I remember purchasing were J.K. Huysman's A rebours, Shakespeare's Montaigne, and MFK Fisher's The Gastronomical Me.

[Anonymous No.6356432]

Why are you reading Jane Austen? Are you a loser?

[Anonymous No.6356437]

>>6355324
You're a little bitch and I hate you and want your stupid romantic job

[Anonymous No.6356451]

>>6356432
..., he said, to nobody in particular.

[Anonymous No.6356466]

>>6353199
Ikke i forhold til de Engelske.

[Anonymous No.6356484]

>>6352624
I found Candide really funny in a sort of lamely clever way. Can't really put my finger on it.

[Anonymous No.6356503]

>>6352721
were you in One Flew Over?