recent purchases thread whatcha got

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Anonymous Sat May 23 19:56:00 2015 No.6581743 [Reply] [Original]

recent purchases thread

whatcha got

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 19:58:16 2015 No.6581747 File: 24 KB, 413x500, 41usjYo3UnL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] hnnng

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 19:59:29 2015 No.6581754 I bought D.M. Armstrong's "A World of States of Affairs" and a complete edition of Aquinas' Summa.

Anonymous Sat May 23 20:17:54 2015 No.6581801

I got a shitty translation of Treasure Island that I needed to complete a collection, a pretty good old edition of Aristotle's Politics, and Middlemarch. I also got a Todorov book fairly recently, it's supposed to be a critique of Enlightenment. No idea how it's called in English, if it's even translated.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 20:22:01 2015 No.6581822 File: 1.64 MB, 3552x2000, WP_20150524_001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dracula, Being and Time, Statism and Anarchy, History of Sexuality vol.2/3 and a Dungeon Synth zine. Italian titles because I live there, obv.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 20:22:42 2015 No.6581826 >>6581743 If you're going to post a blurry picture you could at least itemize the books in it

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:06:05 2015 No.6582004 >>6581743 A bunch of shit downloaded to my ereader. I'd rather spend money on clothes and quality food so I can look good while also having the intellect to pick up girls

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:07:30 2015 No.6582016 does anyone know if the translation of notes from the underground that penguin publishes is terrible? just got it the other day

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:07:45 2015 No.6582018 Looks like something that came out of the college library's free bin.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:16:05 2015 No.6582055 Look at these bourgeoisie richboys buying books. >he thinks he can own anything I'm laughing at you

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:21:38 2015 No.6582071 Wish you could filter plebs who buy used books.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:25:46 2015 No.6582086 there are many cases where a used book is pretty much like new and still sold for half price.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:28:33 2015 No.6582099 >>6582086 Remaindered books and stuff that is bought by people that never read the book.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:28:42 2015 No.6582101 File: 7 KB, 225x257, 1393436066409.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582004 >I'd rather spend money on clothes

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:30:31 2015 No.6582110 >>6582004 >I'd rather spend money on clothes Have you considered suicide?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:32:58 2015 No.6582119 http://www.amazon.com/Puff-Prose-Poetry-Play-Vol/dp/1511693533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432431108&sr=8-1&keywords=joseph+william+burrows

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:33:27 2015 No.6582121 File: 161 KB, 939x959, geos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582101 >he can't afford to look good

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:34:16 2015 No.6582126 >>6582004 back to facebook chad

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:34:45 2015 No.6582129 Just about finished with reading David Malouf's Ransom (very good book, can't really recommend it enough) and waiting for Aurelius' Meditations and Senecas' Letters to arrive. I figured I'd be hyp and start with the Romans instead.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:41:10 2015 No.6582160 >>6582121 >he can afford to look good but still looks like shit

Anonymous Sat May 23 21:45:24 2015 No.6582174
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love letters without love and the individual by karl schmidt

so far, it's a series of young hegelian love letters between some guy and his beloved parodying stirner and feuerbach. the beginning offered a history of karl schmidt and his relation to stirner. the individual is supposedly a more serious continuation that will go beyond stirner's egoism, or something, but i haven't even finished love letters yet

the cover is essentially plastic, and it's just some paper stapled midway, total shit, but there are no other copies or anything available elsewhere, the guy translated this stuff on his own

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:48:05 2015 No.6582181 >>6581743 Call for the Dead A Murder of Quality Selected Essays of Montaigne Shogun vol 1-2

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:49:05 2015 No.6582185 >>6582121 Anyone can afford to look good you cunt. A lot of my favorite pieces of clothing I copped at thrift shops for dirt cheap.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:49:29 2015 No.6582186 >>6582121 >geobaskets >good No

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:50:16 2015 No.6582188 File: 27 KB, 460x368, 1428675770932.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582121 >he has to spend lots of money to look good

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:50:59 2015 No.6582190 >>6582188 Bt you do anon. Do you have any idea how much a good Top Hat costs?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:52:41 2015 No.6582196 >>6582190 Top dollar?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 21:57:16 2015 No.6582211 File: 1.38 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How bad is this translation of Dead Souls? Knicked these from Dymocks an hour ago.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 22:00:15 2015 No.6582223 >>6582196 Top kek.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 22:07:22 2015 No.6582249 File: 83 KB, 216x171, my fello black man.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582211 >Bulgakov

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 22:16:17 2015 No.6582280 >>6582129 Didn't you find Ransom's characters a bit mechanical/underdeveloped? I did enjoy it, though.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 22:17:47 2015 No.6582286 >>6582211 It's the one I read. I really enjoyed it. Good choice of books, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 22:23:04 2015 No.6582304 File: 996 KB, 2560x1440, 20150523_221930.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm going on a trip with my sister to the Wright Brothers museum in NC soon. She wants me to read this beforehand.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 00:12:08 2015 No.6582644 File: 56 KB, 695x373, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6582249 >>6582286 Any suggestions what to read after these? I just finished crime and punishment and was planning to read The Brothers Karamazov after this pile.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 00:15:30 2015 No.6582654 >>6582644 Have you read Bulgakov's other works? Lots of people ignore The White Guard which was his first novel. It's great

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 00:25:58 2015 No.6582678 >>6582071 >not using www.thriftbooks.com Only faggots pay full price when they could read five times as much for the same price.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 01:07:29 2015 No.6582812 >>6582654 I haven't actually, I'll look into that for sure.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 02:01:41 2015 No.6582967 >>6582055 >gendering me :^) . . > ----

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>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 08:45:29 2015 No.6583862 File: 74 KB, 662x635, 13811.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6581822 does Heidegger translate to Italian well

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 08:49:24 2015 No.6583867 >>6583862 Yes, I think. At least, that's what people who spent their life doing so say. The translator worked on it for something like twenty years, and it includes plenty of German terms to clarify and as far as I'm concerned it's great.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 09:04:29 2015 No.6583893 >>6582678 That logic seems to make you some kind of an uber-faggot, as using the library makes me able to read infinitely more for the same price.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 09:24:47 2015 No.6583972 >>6583867 Hey mama mia that's a spicy Mitsein

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 09:25:47 2015 No.6583975 >>6583972 How inauthentic of you

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 09:33:39 2015 No.6584001 >>6581747 Does that contain his letters?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 11:01:45 2015 No.6584216 >>6582004 lol same with me dude, bought to hit up asos 20% sale and then order some protein powder and energy gel off amazon...although i did cop a used copy of basic writings of nietzsche off ebay, just in case the power goes out or something

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 11:03:27 2015 No.6584220 >>6582110 ...and you claim to be an aesthete, stay pleb, nerd

Anonymous Sun May 24 11:06:59 2015 No.6584227

i didn't purchase shit but 'm listen to the audiobook of Farid Zakaria's "In Defense Of Liberal Education" as we speak...it's not bad, check it out, shits only like 5 hours long anyways...some mother fuckers watch 5 hours of game of thrones in a row so it won't kill you

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 11:12:53 2015 No.6584246 Blindness by Jose Saramago and Collected Fictions of Borges as translated by the drummer from Fall Out Boy. About 1/3 through the former, pretty good. Gonna smoke a joint watch some adventure time and then finish reading it.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 11:19:30 2015 No.6584262 File: 226 KB, 630x630, bookscopped.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Starting with Alice after i finish Coetzee's waiting for barbarians

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 11:47:19 2015 No.6584335 >>6582304 Biographies aren't very engaging if you've no real connection to the subject

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 11:50:40 2015 No.6584340 >>6584262 How's Coetzee's writing?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 11:57:49 2015 No.6584358 File: 1.85 MB, 3264x1836, 20150524_115518.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 12:01:41 2015 No.6584371 >>6584358 >Demons I could never get through that book, but it's been a couple of years since I last tried.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 12:05:54 2015 No.6584380 >>6584371 I've heard it is his best novel, so i ordered it, but I started with Sartre because it's short and I just finished The Brothers K

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 12:08:57 2015 No.6584389 >>6584340 it's really good and quite easy. I also read Disgrace by him, which I prefer to waiting for the barbarians. Would recommend

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 12:09:52 2015 No.6584393 >>6584380 I think I got tired of hearing about the trivial day to day life of provincial 19th century Russia.and called it quits, but it's the next Dostoyevsky piece I'm reading I think

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 12:43:57 2015 No.6584469 >>6582121 i like rick owens but just because you've been on 4chans fashion board does not mean you have good taste, i can guarantee you will look like a faggot if you wear geobaskets

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 12:47:47 2015 No.6584486 >>6582121 >hit the gym everyday >wear whatever >??? >profit being seen reading a book in the park doesn't hurt either. Those are stupid as fuck shoes Clark's Desert boots FTW

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 12:49:22 2015 No.6584493 >all these materialistically twats

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 13:01:21 2015 No.6584529 >>6582121 >meme shoes ISHYGDDT

Anonymous Sun May 24 13:30:24 2015 No.6584637

>>6584380
>and I just finished The Brothers K
Going from one Dostoevsky novel to another is a pain. After such a close relationship with one set of character you suddenly have to meet twenty new people, all named Ivan. A buffer-period gives a clean slate.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 13:55:52 2015 No.6584749 >>6584001 unfortunately no. iirc those only started to be published later.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 14:04:09 2015 No.6584783 >>6581747 Not very pretty is it

Anonymous Sun May 24 14:17:28 2015 No.6584819
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The only one I've actually read so far was the Saul Bellow novella. I was a bit disappointed with it. I had heard all great things about him, but felt this really wasn't well-written. It often seemed forced, like he worded things the way he did not because it's how he wanted to but because he simply couldn't think of a better way. I also found himnto be guilty of a common complaint I see here about Vonnegut, in that the metaphors/symbolism/etc. were spelled out so much, thrown in your face, like he didn't expect the reader to be able get any of it on their own and he had to be as brash as possible.

I've also read about a third of Fire from Heaven. It isn't bad so far, though not as good as the other two I've read of hers, The Last of the Wine and The Mask of Apollo.

I plan to start Middlemarch after I finish Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, which I'm roughly halfway through.

I'm very excited to read The Painted Bird. I'd never heard of Jerzy Kosinski until a friend recommended him to me recently. When I went to my favorite local used bookstore and saw that a few days later, I had to get it.

Anonymous Sun May 24 14:24:39 2015 No.6584849

>>6582181
Please come back and tell what you think of Shogun. It was once recommended to me by a former coworker. The way he described it made it sound pretty damn good, but the guy was a fucking moron, so I'm still hesitant to take his recommendation seriously.

fuck these food image captchas. I'm way to hungry, trying to hold off eating til I get to work (a restaurant)

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 14:26:41 2015 No.6584862 >>6583893 >library contains an infinite quantity of books

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 14:30:05 2015 No.6584882 File: 43 KB, 610x609, 1429167369972.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can't be bothered to take pictures, but I just go: >Book of Five Rings. >Hagakure >Musashi >Fucking weeaboos.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 14:30:51 2015 No.6584888 >Hai Guise :) Anon, here with another book haul video for you

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 14:47:52 2015 No.6584980 >Please comment and give me validation. I have no real life friends and need to be called a pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 14:51:30 2015 No.6585000 File: 36 KB, 540x376, 1427711408825.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6584980 Very astute observation, thank you friend.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 14:54:02 2015 No.6585013 >>6584882 How well does 'Fucking Weeaboos' read?

Anonymous Sun May 24 15:05:14 2015 No.6585072

>>6585013
It's a very nice look into 21st century Western otaku culture told through the eyes of a fat 17 year old basement dwelling neckbeard.
What's really nice is that the it has no story, but events simply unfold while the main character ages. Following the plot gets difficult sometimes, because every character in the book is referred to by his online handle which changes depending on the context and who's speaking, as is common in 21st century Otaku culture.

Prose is excellent, and I'd definitely recommend it before reading the 7 part epic 'A Hatsune Miku Onahole'.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 15:30:49 2015 No.6585144 >>6583893 It would make me a faggot if I had a decent library available to me. The closest one is an hour away and it's the size of a house with a large amount of it being Christian books. Kill yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 16:38:20 2015 No.6585486 glass bead game

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 17:36:49 2015 No.6585782 >>6584849 I bought it because I remember reading and loving it when I was 14-15. Page turning political thriller in an interesting setting.

>>	green !YOUlQWt3s6 Sun May 24 17:48:04 2015 No.6585828 >>6585000 >>6585000 nice peep mind if i save?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 19:24:18 2015 No.6586220 Bought Dubliners and Inherent Vice a couple of days ago. Cannae be arsed to take a photo.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 19:26:17 2015 No.6586225 >>6581747 Gah damn he ugly

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 23:53:04 2015 No.6587077 File: 516 KB, 456x691, Screen Shot 2015-05-20 at 1.05.14 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6586225 pls >dat hair >dem eyes

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 23:59:45 2015 No.6587103 >>6584637 This. I usually dive into a history book or some light poetry after reading a really long and captivating novel like TBK

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 00:38:24 2015 No.6587225 File: 137 KB, 988x716, swtg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] $45 dollarydoos not including shipping

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 08:12:39 2015 No.6588263 >>6587225 You must be a smash at parties.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 08:18:45 2015 No.6588271 No pics, but: >La Disparition by Georges Perec >Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse >A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis >Lais de Marie de France I'm making my way through the Lais right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 08:57:43 2015 No.6588366 >>6588263 >literally posting this on a literature board

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 09:21:40 2015 No.6588412 >>6588366 I have literature parties all the time. He would be a smash.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 09:55:09 2015 No.6588505 >>6587225 Good to see someone following the recommendations of /lit/.

Anonymous Mon May 25 10:14:35 2015 No.6588548

>>6581743
>Kiernan - The Pol Pot Regime
>Hinton - Why did they kill?
Just purhcased:
>Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky
>The Rape of Nanking - Chang
>Suffering, Suicide & Immortality - Schopenhauer
>Mao's Great Famine - Dikötter
It's going to be a grim summer.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 10:17:45 2015 No.6588558 >>6588548 Forgot: >Resurrecting Empire - Khalidi

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 10:27:06 2015 No.6588590 >>6588505 Everyone should read The Histories. Most fun history book ever.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 13:18:38 2015 No.6589146 Alighieri - The Divine Comedy Faulkner - Sound and the Fury Faulkner - As I Lay Dying Herbert - Dune Camus - The Plague

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 13:27:33 2015 No.6589170 >>6583972 This is the greatest thing I've read all week.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 13:30:17 2015 No.6589180 >aware of the existence of libraries >buying books

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>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 13:33:10 2015 No.6589189 >>6589146 undergrads need to die

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 14:01:17 2015 No.6589295 >>6589183 >am i /lit/ yet

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 14:59:16 2015 No.6589487 >>6589183 >NHL Hitz '03 will teach you the most

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 16:26:09 2015 No.6589814 File: 1.03 MB, 2592x1456, IMG_20150525_182231777.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 16:31:41 2015 No.6589843 File: 279 KB, 750x1000, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] swig swaggety swag

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 16:47:40 2015 No.6589894 >>6589183 That Borges cover goes hard as balls, nikka.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 18:59:24 2015 No.6590599 >>6584819 Kosinski is great, read it first dude.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 19:01:59 2015 No.6590616 >>6589183 >>6589843 >tfw recently got these same copies of Ficciones, Book of Disquiet, and Melancholy of Resistance for birthday mis negros

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 19:23:26 2015 No.6590717 >>6584819 Oh jesus The Painted Bird. Have fun with that shit. Good book but I never want to read that ever fucking again.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 19:25:56 2015 No.6590731 >>6589183 Tell me how Ficciones is. I keep seeing that same copy around near me in the bookstores but I haven't picked it up yet, mainly because I am not sure if I will like it or not.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 20:02:11 2015 No.6590890 >>6590731 im not that guy but it's amazing just read one of the stories online. library of babel is especially good.

Anonymous Mon May 25 20:13:03 2015 No.6590949

r8 pls

A Modest Propposal by Jonathan Swift
The Aesthetic Unconciouss by Jaques Ranciére
Satiricon by Petrônio
Monstrutivismo (about 70s marginal cinema in Brazil)
Anti-Oedipus and Towards a Minor Literature by D&G
Complete works - 1940-58 by Bioy Casaes
Surrealist Manifestos by Breton
Cosmicomics by Calvino
The Coming Community by Agamben
The Origins of the Work of Art by Heidegger
Art & Culture - Selected Essays by Clement Greenberg
and three Walter Benjamin reading guides by various brazilian thinkers

Anonymous Mon May 25 20:15:23 2015 No.6590953

>>6590731
Borges is GOATOAT.

He can create 3 page stories that are far more deep, intricate and meaningful than lots of 400 novels.

Plus, it's not like you'll lose a lot of time, his books can be read and fully apreciated in 2 or 3 days (which doesn't mean a lot of his stories won't take root in your mind forever)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 21:02:00 2015 No.6591159 >>6589814 I have that same edition of Dharma Bums. Read the entire book over a two week span during which I ingested marijuana laced brownies each time I sat down to read the book. It was a wonderful time

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 23:41:47 2015 No.6591748 >>6590949 I've been meaning to read the Surealist Manifestos. Thanks for reminding me.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 00:13:33 2015 No.6591857 File: 1.73 MB, 3264x2448, 2015-05-26 00.12.07.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] John Gray - The Silence of Animals David Abram - The Spell of the Sensuous

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 12:38:59 2015 No.6593712 >>6589189 >he didnt get into college

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 14:56:24 2015 No.6594166 File: 296 KB, 1920x2560, PK95i2w.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How'd I do?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 16:05:39 2015 No.6594517 File: 533 KB, 750x1000, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got them from a friend who started every single one but never got past page 23 on all of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 16:11:17 2015 No.6594543 >>6581743 Arby's??? how about applying some of that wisdom to your culinary intake?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 16:17:10 2015 No.6594563 File: 250 KB, 600x600, 383599497.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw bought all Malazan books instead of some classics

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 20:03:31 2015 No.6595444 >>6594517 >tfw I wanna read Anna Karenina >tfw I know I will never finish it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 20:07:21 2015 No.6595465 >>6595444 I read War and Peace earlier this year. Tolstoy's writing is not difficult. Just chip away at it a hundred or a couple hundred pages a week and you'll be done before you realize.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 20:08:00 2015 No.6595468 >>6595444 at least you have trips m8

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