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Recent Purchases Thread Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:27:08 2015 No.7221978 [Reply] [Original]

Alright, what's your weekly haul look like?

I got this lot for $3 a piece.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:28:36 2015 No.7221983 >>7221978 I give you 2 years of reading and you'll finally leave this shitty board. The same 50 books posted and discussed, nothing added to the conversation... God, Lit is disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:38:09 2015 No.7222028 no one gives a shit you consumerist whore. you don't even have taste. read a book and make a thread about it or fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:50:27 2015 No.7222085 >>7222028 I assume you just picked up some Marx recently. How is it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:53:44 2015 No.7222099 I think those old covers for BotNS are cool, and that hardcover Borges looks great, and Blindness is a brilliant book that I wish was talked about more on here. Sorry everyone else is so mad

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:57:05 2015 No.7222115 borges is shit but at least you have the book of the new sun

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:59:56 2015 No.7222129 >>7222099 I picked it up after reading Saramago's interview with the paris review. Is this a good place to start with Saramago, or did I stumble here?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:02:36 2015 No.7222137 >>7222129 It was my first Saramago as well, so I think you should be good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:02:59 2015 No.7222140 >>7222028 >Two Nobel winning authors, The most lauded SF series in history, and Borges. >"you don't even have taste" You fuckin' with us, right?

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:07:25 2015 No.7222159 >>7222140 >buying pre-approved /lit/core middlebrow crap is taste lel.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:07:28 2015 No.7222160 >>7222147 What is the general consensus Knausgard? I keep seeing hi books posted but the reception seems all over the place.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:09:24 2015 No.7222166 >>7222159 Enlighten us then. What's on your bookshelf?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:21:04 2015 No.7222214 >>7222028 Ignore this aspie OP Those are some naughty looking editions; be sure to read some Chesterton if you like Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:21:04 2015 No.7222215 >>7221978 Recently: Stoner-John Williams Journey by Moonlight-Szerb The New York Trilogy-Paul Auster

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:37:34 2015 No.7222292 >>7222160 I haven't read the My Struggle series yet, but this book is pretty great at least. So far, I think the favourable reception he gets as an author is deserved. His style sort of reminds me of German-language interwar and post-war authors

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:39:35 2015 No.7222306 Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton Contemplations by St John of the Cross Catholicism: Journey to the heart of the faith This should be interesting.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:41:34 2015 No.7222318

>>7222292
cont'

Ironically, it was the favourable reception from abroad that made me consider Knausgård in the first place. There was such a huge media circus in Norway surrounding the first few volumes of My Struggle, that I just kind of grew sick of him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:41:54 2015 No.7222319 The Recognitions I've never had to read this slowly before.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:47:28 2015 No.7222341 >>7222140 > The most lauded SF series in history What no

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:50:12 2015 No.7222352 >>7222341 Which author of sff has earned greater respect from his peers than Gene Wolfe? Tolkien maybe? Le Guin? Herbert? Lem?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:54:17 2015 No.7222369 File: 433 KB, 1280x960, IMG_3384.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7221978 >I like to contemplate suicide after reading my high school girl entry level-tier books

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:57:40 2015 No.7222389 >>7221978 Stay away from Blindness. It's very very boring.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 17:59:02 2015 No.7222393 >>7222369 Vonnegut was a trash version of Dick and Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:04:10 2015 No.7222421 >>7222393 Dick was a trash version of Ballard

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:05:31 2015 No.7222429 >>7222421 It's the other way around friend

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:27:36 2015 No.7222576 File: 1.92 MB, 3264x1836, 20151011_232413.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Picked up a couple classics (I know dune messiah is hardly a classic but I enjoyed the first one) that I've been meaning to read for a while, £5 for the lot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:28:30 2015 No.7222581 >>7222389 >reading for plot >reading for enjoyment

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:29:20 2015 No.7222587 >>7222576 Fuck knows why it's upside down

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:30:12 2015 No.7222591 File: 765 KB, 2204x2162, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Who /mindfuck/ here?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:31:09 2015 No.7222598 File: 409 KB, 1200x900, yoyo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:34:09 2015 No.7222610 File: 1.48 MB, 2448x3264, IMG_20151011_183900.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Top left is a '30s copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence. >>7222587 4chan removes exif data by default now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:56:11 2015 No.7222687 >>7222352 All of the above and then some?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:04:39 2015 No.7222716 >>7222610 is that cambridge edition of schopenhauer supposed to be better than the dover?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:09:59 2015 No.7222745 >>7222716 It's a new (2010s) translation by actual scholars and students of philosophy (Payne was not one) from one of the most prestigious universities whose translations of other works of philosophy are recommended universally.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:21:04 2015 No.7222780 >>7222745 well then

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:24:39 2015 No.7222786 >>7222780 I haven't read the Dover edition sorry. I have, however, had no issues with this one so far.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:30:04 2015 No.7222801 >>7222598 IT'S YOU!

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:33:02 2015 No.7222814 >>7222581 Is Sunday /lit/'s weekly trolling day or is this all just one very bored person too scared to try and troll a big boy board?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:39:08 2015 No.7222835 >>7222385 I want to get The Summer Book. Hopefully it is as comfy as the Moomin comics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:05:45 2015 No.7222954 File: 150 KB, 1500x1000, O_l.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >translations

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:52:44 2015 No.7223076 >>7221978 I don't care for the Wolfe fantasy novels. Ficciones is apparently Borges' best and I've heard good things of Hesse. Have fun.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 00:32:36 2015 No.7223930 >>7223076 Thanks you too

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 11:18:04 2015 No.7225557 >buying physical books In this day and age, why?

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 11:48:28 2015 No.7225667

>>7225557
Because I make myself read them.
Because it is more pleasant to read physical than audiobooks or ebooks.
Because having them on your shelf looks nice.
Because you get reminded of what they represent when you see them.
Because you can borrow them to your friends and family so they can share in your joy.
Because Hegel is a pussy magnet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 11:54:41 2015 No.7225689 >>7222954 never gets old never was fresh

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 11:55:50 2015 No.7225692 >>7221978 >order books from bookdepository >books haven't arrived 19 days later I fucking hate this. Time to e-mail them again..

>>	Handsome Son Mon Oct 12 11:56:20 2015 No.7225694 >>7225557 Something about the grit of the texture, your fingers roughly combing the edges as you scatter to turn the page :3

>>	The cats Mon Oct 12 11:57:23 2015 No.7225699 File: 31 KB, 450x319, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7225557 vapes

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:02:00 2015 No.7225718 File: 127 KB, 655x873, weekend shelf sullyers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] £1.5–2 each

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:21:12 2015 No.7225792 >>7225667 >>7225694 I see, makes sense. >>7225699 End your life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:22:13 2015 No.7225797 >>7225692 They're slow as fuck, that's true, but I've never had an issue with my books getting lost that I ordered from them. They're also true to their word about the condition of their books from my own experience. Hope you get your books soon, man.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:33:21 2015 No.7225825

>>7225797
I've had one book get lost once, and now it's an order of three books. It must've gone wrong, because I ordered another book the day after, and I received that one last monday. Last time I didn't receive my book, I e-mailed them, and they sent me a new one, though. So it's alright, I just had my reading schedule planned out, and that kind of got thrown out the window.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:48:28 2015 No.7225874 >>7222393 Pynchon is a trash version of Dick and Vonnegut tbh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:55:05 2015 No.7225888 >>7225874 I highly dislike Pynchon and had no enjoyment in reading him or can say that I found beauty or interesting thoughts, but Vonnegut is so bland in everything I can't even hate him. He is a generic moe anime of postmodernism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:58:26 2015 No.7227869 >>7222591 Diaspora was fun, although I lost him about 2/3rds of the way in with all that trans-dimensional shit. Who's My Clippings by?

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 22:57:55 2015 No.7228069
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>>7222393
everybody's a critic. why not let people enjoy or figure it out for themselves? instead you come here and shit on a book someone bought with their money and didnt buy Banana man and WOA DRUGS, MAN. I guess it comes with the territory. never change, /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:00:21 2015 No.7228074 >>7225718 that multatuli book is intriguering me

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:27:16 2015 No.7228154 >>7225874 This is very wrong. Pynchon is better than both in every way possible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:30:25 2015 No.7228163 >>7225718 >Using a still of kooky Nietzsche for your cover A bit rude tbh

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:33:33 2015 No.7228170 >>7222129 It's probably the best Saramago intro work. It's brilliant, enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:38:44 2015 No.7228177 The old Penguin and old Oxford World's Classics cover templates are better than the new ones.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:44:12 2015 No.7228193 >>7222591 Que es My Clippings? I can't find it anywhere

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:46:36 2015 No.7228199 File: 1.75 MB, 3552x2000, WP_20151012_002.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7221978

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:46:47 2015 No.7228201 >muh materialism

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