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Pecent rurchases thread.

>> No.6459072

[freedom intensifies]

>> No.6459081

I stole Tristes Tropiques from the bookstore today. I'd like to steal Thousand Plateaus but no store seems to have it.

>> No.6459091

I stole around 15 books when my Uni was having a massive book sale.

>> No.6459143

>>6459037
I have that same edition of Moby Dick, OP. I live in Mexico City, around the area where all the universities are, so this one bookstore receives all of the imported books that get damaged in the way, and sell them at half price. I got Ulysses in the new Vintage edition, M&D, Tristram Shandy and Moby Dick that way. Have you started it? Personally, I found the beginning magnificent, but couldn't continue because school readings.

I'm currently waiting for an Amazon order, which is supposed to arrive in a week. Will post.

>> No.6459177

>>6459037
Read some Baudrillard and Bauman you screaming abscess.

>> No.6459181

>>6459177
>baudrillard
Do you want us to not take you seriously?

>> No.6459194
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r8 and h8 friends

>> No.6459200

>>6459181
Still better than the shit he is reading.

>> No.6459202

>>6459194
>complete works of Shelly
Nice choice. I visited his and Keats' grave in Rome. Incredibly beautiful.

>> No.6459216

>>6459194
>Barnes and Nobles Leatherbound Classics

Literally Reddit.

>> No.6459226

>>6459200
>>6459177
>ranking literature
Besides, I have little time for philosophy, even though I read so much of it already. Stop thinking that philosophy and fiction are the only things you should be reading and start getting into history, and social sciences for that matter.

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6459232

Got these yesterday!
Gottfried Benn, Selected Works, 2 volumes. Poetry, essays and prose.
Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colours.

>> No.6459239

>>6459181
>>6459226
I think he was accusing you of materialism

>> No.6459242

>>6459226
>implying baudrillard is not related to history and social sciences
>untying the gordian knot

>> No.6459256

>>6459232
>Benn
Meh

>> No.6459258

>>6459242
Alright well either way History and economics have been my books of choice. I will look into Baudrillard

>> No.6459259

2001: A Space Odyssey
Foundation (book #1)

>> No.6459261

>>6459239
Not the same person

>> No.6459284

>>6459261
Him*, not you

>> No.6459292

>>6459202
You are a cool guy anon

>> No.6459407
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6459407

My birthday was few days ago. All of these are birthday presents. I haven't bought anything lately, I need to finish these first. Also, I'm actually an Americlap living in France and I only want to read French for the next few months (except for lit in English).

>> No.6459416

>>6459407
How is it in France?

>> No.6459424

>>6459407
Happy birthday Anon!

>> No.6459427

Is there a 'definitve' book for E.A Poe?
Like Barnes' and Noble's Lovefract Complete Collection.

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>>6459427
You mean kind of like Barnes and Noble The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Collection? Beats me.

>> No.6459453

>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Road
And because I'm (re)starting with the Greeks:
>Mythology from Hamilton
>The Iliad

>> No.6459463

>>6459416
Working on a PhD. Love studying there. Excellent food, quite cheap for high quality imo. Housing is expensive but once you've found the hidden gem, it's real nice (my godfather owns an apartment and rents it to me so I'm lucky).
The only shit thing is some parts of Paris are not very safe and especially after 1am so I just tend to avoid buses at this time.

>>6459424
Thanks fellow Anon.

>> No.6459475

>>6459463
What's the subject of the PhD?

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>>6459194
>not getting the 19th century edition illustrated by Gustave Dore
>Buying a new book that's been in print for years like a typical bourgeois piece of human garbage
fuck you buddy

>> No.6459490
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>>6459407
Joyeux anniversaire compatriote !

>Drieu La Rochelle

>> No.6459496

>>6459479
thread ruined by memedgyposter

>> No.6459537

>>6459443
I guess so!
Thanks friendo.

>> No.6459546

>>6459475
US-France History.
>>6459490
Merci !

>> No.6459548

>>6459479
Sorry mate, I've returned it and tracked down dante's original manuscript to read. There's pages missing, the writing is faded and it's all in Italian, but at least you don't hate me anymore, right?

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How'd I do fam?

>> No.6459567 [DELETED] 

>>6459548
Give it to me or else I'll rape your asshole in front of your parents and then stab your parents to fucking DEATH in front of you. >:^(

>> No.6459689
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I got this Easton Press edition of the Canterbury Tales for $10 at a farmers market. Score!

>> No.6459744

>>6459689

What's the date on that Canterbury Tales? Nice find.

>> No.6459786

>>6459744
idk, somewhere around the late 14th century I think.

>> No.6459796

>>6459786
>>6459744
Just kidding. The copyright says 1978, but I can't say for sure when It was printed. I can say that when I bought it and the other EP books from the market they were wrapped in this plastic like they were shipped but never opened. So they're mint.

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>>6459796
>>6459689
Here are the other books I picked up at the market. The orange one on the bottom is Gulliver's Travels. They're all from Easton Press, mint. Except for the blue one on the bottom right, that's Moby Dick and it's a "Special edition for subscribers to the Oxford Library,"

>> No.6459872

>>6459194
nice fedora covers

>> No.6459877

>>6459443
thats a complete fedora cover too

>> No.6459881

>>6459827
oh god more fedora

>> No.6459894

>>6459872
>>6459877
>>6459881
Do you actually speak English, or are you a sentient mass of meme that congealed in a gutter somewhere?

>> No.6459921

>>6459872
Paradise Lost one is cool. Agreed otherwise.

>> No.6459924

>>6459894
just admit your covers are fedora

>> No.6459933

>>6459924
And that answers my question.

>> No.6459937

>>6459933
it does, you fedora tipping fuck

>> No.6459946

>>6459194
Ignore the assholes. Those are good choices and if you like those books, who gives a shit where you got them or which print. Happy reading

>> No.6459949

>>6459946
same poster

i can smell the fedora

>> No.6459966

>>6459194
Nice books anon. I've been meaning to get into shelley how are you finding that collection of his work?

>> No.6460054

>>6459143
Donde es eso? en miguel angel de quevedo?

>> No.6460284

>>6459937

poorfag detected. consider suicide to raise the collective average intelligence of the human race.

>> No.6460288

>>6460284
guy who doesn't have an eye for aesthetics detected

>> No.6460293

>>6460054
En Librería El Péndulo de Perisur. Siempre hay libros Penguin y cosas así en mal estado. Libros de 20 dolares cuestan 250 pesos, que ni de pedo es lo que cuestan en realidad, con el dolar a 16 y los cargos de importación.

>> No.6460441

>>6460293
>Penguin

tssss...

Pues tendre que ir a ver, aunque siempre compro por bookdepository y en librerias de viejo, pero casi puras novelas de daniel steelle ;_;

>> No.6460478

>English translation of Faust

fucking trash it

>> No.6460500

>>6460288
book covers are always kitsch by nature

>> No.6460519
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>>6460500
not true.

>> No.6460550
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6460550

How did I do?

>> No.6460559
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6460559

sup nigs : )

>> No.6460562

>>6460550
I hope that you dont want to hold those forever.
Dover is superior to Wordsworth tho

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>>6460519
Now this I can get into.

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>>6460550
fucking shit is how you did, cunt. haha for a sec i thought that was don Quixote, i don't have Miserables but if I did, I would get a dope ASS copy, not that fag shit you got yourself.

>> No.6460573

>>6460562
I hardly expect Dubliners to survive the plane ride home. For $3 you get what you pay for, but I'd rather have a physical copy that falls apart than try to read a pdf on my phone.

>> No.6460585

>>6460572
The only other copies were the abridged versions and the one with NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE across the front.

>> No.6460591

>>6460573
>dubliners for a plane ride
holy fuck where are you going?

>> No.6460617

>>6460591
I'm currently on a study abroad semester, I just meant that it won't last until I get back. No, Les Mis is for the plane ride.

>> No.6460671

>>6460550
is The Dub Liners worth reading?

>> No.6460851

>>6459194
I'm digging that blanket. Do you think you could share a picture of your entire bedspread?

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>>6460851
Here you go anon

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>>6460851
>>6461598

And a surprise on the flip side.
No use of the words reddit or fedora if hating please.

>> No.6461695

>>6461598
>>6460851
>>6461608
>/lit/ Bed Bath & Beyond

>> No.6461726
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>>6461598
>>6461608

not him but wow nice

>>6461695

there was an anon here with the nicest bedspread, but I cannot afford.

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>>6461695
looks more like pendleton to me.

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>>6461726
Was that me? That's my exact bedspread.

I can't imagine why you would remember my bedspread and even save the photo from the Gant store page.

>> No.6462288

>>6462269
whenever I see your bedspread I think of your poster sized heart of darkness

>> No.6462294

>>6462288
oh jesus christ thanks for reminding me....

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>>6462288
This one?

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>>6462307

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>>6462309

>> No.6462328

>>6462312
I have that Lolita.

>> No.6462329

>>6462307
>>6462309
is that some chinese bootleg?

>> No.6462339

>>6462329
Nope. It's Amazon's German kindle print.

Except that it doesn't state that in the item description.

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My local bookstore didnt have the first two books of the Rat Series :^(

>> No.6463037

>>6463021
Why?

>> No.6463057

>>6463037
Why would I buy the last 2 but not the first 2? I ordered the first two online.

Why would I buy Murakami in the first place? I have poor taste

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>>6459553
The Giants book looks great, post illustrations.

Just got that, it was just printed and I didn't know anything about this release. Damn I love France.

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>>6459966
I've not started it yet, but I bought it after reading his defence of poetry essay which was great.

>> No.6463289

>The Bell Jar
>Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
>Girl With Curious Hair

How did I do?

>> No.6463418

>>6459194
I have that copy of the Divine Comedy, it's a really dreary translation and the paper feels horribly cheap. I ended up giving it to my brother,

>> No.6463424
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bought these the other day for under $50. used book stores are the best.

>> No.6463434

>>6463424

oh, and the fourth book from the bottom is "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" and if you can't read it, the fourth from the top is "Gargantua and Pantagruel"

>> No.6463455

>>6463424
>The pelican Shakespeare

>> No.6463473

>>6463455

What's wrong with that? It still contains the entire text.

Anyway, it came free with my purchase, so I wasn't in a position to be picky.

>> No.6463504

>>6459924
the fuck is wrong with you?do you only spew memes you read here on 4chan?

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>>6463424
What a coincidence. I bought a second hand copy of To the Lighthouse recently, too.

I also bought a used anthology of Luis Borges stories, and some qt marked it up. It actually helps with my reading comprehension.

>> No.6466298

>>6463504
People are the worst.

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>>6459407
>I only want to read French for the next few months (except for lit in English).

>I only wnt to read in French except when I don't

>> No.6466331

>>6464624
That's distracting as hell. What does some cunt know? Would you have really picked out those passages if you weren't automatically drawn to them by the highlighting?

>> No.6466333

>>6464624
It's more marked than not

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>>6462269

Yep. What can I say, I like nice objects and things. I'm like one of those birds that collects brightly coloured glass or stones to impress mates.

I get most of my books from the library these days but I recently ordered:

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: James Tiptree Jr.
Grass - Sheri S. Tepper
The World Inside - Robert Silverberg
Peru - Gordon Lish

>> No.6466364

>>6460671
I am only taking it one story at a time and reflecting on it after I read. Probably makes me a pleb but I definitely feel like you need to slow down reading it but I'm definitely finding it interesting. Every story makes you think.

Plus it was super cheap so why not.

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>decide to visit book store after half a year
>fav author published new sequel to fav book series (right).
>have only 15€for the end of month
>book costs 14,99€
>Fuckitineedthis.jpeg
>Bitch aks if i want a paypalcard
>fuck it yes
>can decide between 4 books for free because i got a paypalcard.
>took book on pic left.
>best day in 2015

>> No.6466421

>>6466416
srsly

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Top pleb :^)

>> No.6466702

>>6466416
*paybackcard is what i meant.

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im new

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>> No.6466929

>>6466841
>abridged kierkegaard

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Hopping on The Peregrine train

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Also, could someone post a link to the google doc a guy from here made about intro to philosophy. It was pretty much a long list of books.

>> No.6466991

>>6466988
>deckled edges

*vomits*

>> No.6466998

>>6466988
Reading Herodotus is good for your memory. Remember that. Try to become invested in the religion of the gods as well. The Histories is an amazing book. My favorite books were when he was describing different cultures. Books II and IV were my favorite because they detailed the cultures the Greeks knew little about. It's a book for anyone interested in history and the art of acquiring and disseminating it.

>> No.6467011

>>6466991
Yeah that was a pretty big bummer when I opened up the package.
What the fuck were they thinking?

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got these a few weeks ago, need money for more important things, and the time it takes to read as well for that matter. no more books for the foreseeable future (6-12 months!)

fuck knows why the arthur machen collection is wide and horrid like that (like A4ish size), but i havnt delved into it yet, so dont know just how irritating/unergonomic i will find it. it is all double-columned throughout with no illustrations as well...

>> No.6467093

>>6467011
"It'll look like it was printed in Homer's time!"

>> No.6467375

>>6459091
>>6459081
Look at me I'm a stereotypical angst ridden visceralist.

Imaginary tit job to whoever gets the reference.

>> No.6467379

>buying books when you probably have a library near where you live
>buying books when you have the whole internet at your disposable

Explain

>> No.6467381

>>6466991
I unironically love deckled edges, my Anna Karenina with them (the edition that everyone has) is wonderful

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Rate

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I only have this one on me. I'm at work.

Along with it I ordered:

Farenheit 451
Animal Farm
Clockwork Orange
Blood Meridian
Invisible Man
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Some differential equations book
Euclid's Elements

And I think that's it. Came in two batches.

>> No.6467458

>>6467400
keep it up, anon

>> No.6467492

>>6466337
thats a Perfect Waifu© right there

>> No.6469624

Bump

>> No.6469645

>>6467379
Because buy books keeps publishing houses in business. Libraries are for paupers.

>> No.6469648

>>6467375
Most people have read the savage detectives, you angry man child. I bet you got incredibly smug while typing that thinking only a few people would get that reference. Pathetic.

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Bumping with my own recent purchases.

>> No.6470059

>>6470052
>don quijote
>en ingles

Nunca voy a entender tu estupidez,/lit/.

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d e n s e

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>>6470076
"It's so dry!" -Bam

>> No.6470083

this book of selected DH Lawrence poetry I ordered about a week ago finally came today, I'm so excited ^_^

>> No.6470156

>>6470059
>learning to speak landscaperese

A waste of time

>> No.6470168

>>6466991
I hate those, but I got a hardcover copy of The Satanic Verses with deckled edges (it was the only version in the used bookstore).

I loved the book so much, I think it influenced my opinion on deckling.

>> No.6471607

My 100 Years og Solitude has deckled edges. It's not too bad.

>> No.6471622

>>6469645
And why would /lit/ care about keeping publishing houses in business. This place only reads classic /lit/ which is already widely in circulation.

>> No.6471647

>>6470059
>being proud of speaking dirty pig latin

Oy vey

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Good stuff so far