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Recent purchases thread? Recent purchases thread.

>> No.6520677

Wordsworth is shit, Everyman's is shit, Vintage is shit. Should have got the Norton collection of Donne.

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>>6520661
>ulysses
we caught another one guys!

>> No.6520690

>>6520680
Is Ulysses like the SS or NMH of /lit/?

>> No.6520698

>>6520690
It's universally acknowledged as the supreme masterpiece of English fiction but some retards on /lit/ keep calling it a meme book

>> No.6520701

>>6520690
No, and besides that's actually a good book.
Closest thing to that is infinite jest. it's still an alright novel

>> No.6520702

>>6520677
>Wordsworth is shit

For £2 a book it's pretty good, actually. Good paper, good typeset and formatting, a little bit of critical material. Only problem is the shitty translations for non-English books.

Everyman's is also good value for money. Their Hemingway and Camus anthologies are excellent.

>> No.6520709

>>6520701
Meme book on /lit/ would be The Ego and Its Own

>> No.6520717

>2015
>buying books

You didn't even get good editions

>> No.6520731

>>6520709
that one too, but i'm sure more people have (tried to) read IJ than Forehead Guy.

>> No.6520746

>>6520661

I've bought Wordsworth for some books that wouldn't need translating like Dubliners, Gulliver's Travels, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom I bought their edition of Master and the Margarita for comedic reasons.

Anyway here's mine:
The Book of New Sun: Shadow and Claw
The Book of New Sun:Sword and Citadel
The Corrections-Franzen
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A Journey Round my Skull
The Melancholy of Resistance