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Anonymous Fri Nov 27 05:16:50 2015 No.7395955 [Reply] [Original]

Are any book sites running decent Black Friday deals?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 06:32:45 2015 No.7396062 File: 147 KB, 626x710, GustaveDoreParadiseLostSatanProfile.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what did you fags get? bought milton, byron, dumas. saved 34$

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 06:49:00 2015 No.7396082 File: 21 KB, 460x276, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7396062 >purchasing books that are in the public domain Stay pleb, friendo

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 07:01:36 2015 No.7396116 File: 1.97 MB, 3264x2448, snob.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7396082 >poorfags

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 07:03:42 2015 No.7396120 >>7396082 >this post

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 07:04:54 2015 No.7396122 >>7396082 >purchasing any book

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 07:16:00 2015 No.7396138 >>7396116 >purchasing books on black friday >not poorfag

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 08:59:17 2015 No.7396256 >>7396062 Penguin Hardcover Classics Moby Dick and some Criterion Blu-Rays (the Zatoichi set and Kuroneko).[\spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 09:41:21 2015 No.7396314 File: 3.58 MB, 1380x1692, md.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7396256 Is it this one that you bought, anon? Be warned, the white parts come off really easily. Especially on the back. Other than that, pretty good quality.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 09:43:21 2015 No.7396315 Not many are worth it; a few quid off at most.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 10:52:13 2015 No.7396433 >>7395955 Amazon: Coupon code: "HOLIDAY30" https://www.reddit.com/r/bookclub/comments/3ucfyp/black_friday_take_30_off_any_printed_book_on/

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 10:55:43 2015 No.7396439 >>7396433 The code can only be used once, but it applies to box sets too. Time to get In Search of Lost Time

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:13:49 2015 No.7396473 20% off Thirftbooks Do any gay porn sites have deals today?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:22:24 2015 No.7396493 File: 1.63 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What did you guys get today? pic related is my haul

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:24:45 2015 No.7396496 >>7396493 Anon, can you take a picture of the front cover of American Psycho. I bought a copy off Amazon and want to see if we've got the same one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:29:43 2015 No.7396499 File: 1.19 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7396496 sure thing bud, hopefully I dont fuck up and post it upside down again

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:30:44 2015 No.7396502 >>7396499 Thanks anon, looks like we've got the same one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:31:43 2015 No.7396503 >>7396502 o-oh my anon, should we start a two man bookclub? :3

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:35:16 2015 No.7396512 File: 2.31 MB, 2448x3264, 001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7396503 Sure thing pham, we've even got the same F451 edition.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:38:51 2015 No.7396520 File: 1.98 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7396512 But do we have the same cat?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:41:40 2015 No.7396525 >>7396520 >tfw not responsible enough to own a pet Can barely pay for food/essentials for myself, let alone another living being.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:44:48 2015 No.7396531 >>7396525 Ah that sucks m8. Im sure you'll make more money one day, I believe in you anon! Which book are you gunna read first tho?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:47:05 2015 No.7396535 >>7396531 Thanks for believing in me. I've already read F451, so I'm just waiting on American Psycho to arrive. I live in Australia so it takes about 2 weeks to get here. Loved the movie, hoping I'll love the book just as much.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:53:39 2015 No.7396553 >>7396535 nice nice, stralia' has always seemed like a cool place to live; I used to follow the skateboarding scene over there heavily Well in a couple weeks you can expect a thread about American psycho and we can discuss it then

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 11:56:19 2015 No.7396561 >>7396553 Nice, should be fun!

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:34:36 2015 No.7397994 >>7396553 >stralia' has always seemed like a cool place to live it's not that good

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:36:39 2015 No.7398001 >>7396473 Where'd you get that from? I only see the 10% sale.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:39:15 2015 No.7398006 >>7396433 thats a troll, that code is for barnes and noble, i wish it was for amazon tho, they have lower base prices

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:46:01 2015 No.7398025 File: 1023 KB, 2304x1296, book haul5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I technically didn't do any book shopping today, but I did get a ton of books I had already ordered in the mail today.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:51:03 2015 No.7398033 File: 976 KB, 2304x1296, book haul4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7398025 Meant in response to >>7396493 Also these

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:52:06 2015 No.7398039 File: 895 KB, 2304x1296, book haul3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7398033 and these

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:53:09 2015 No.7398044 File: 944 KB, 2304x1296, book haul6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7398039 And finally, these. The poor mailman had to lug a tub of packages up the stairs for me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 21:59:06 2015 No.7398056 >>7398033 I gotta ask: how did you hear about that Ex Libris book? I saw it recommended on a blog but the first few pages I read in store sounded abysmal.

Anonymous Fri Nov 27 22:17:26 2015 No.7398100
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>>7398056
I read it nearly four years ago and remember enjoying it, but I can't remember much about why, other than that it was as comforting as books about books tend to be. Especially when all I had back then was /lit/ for book conversation.

I just reread the preface and didn't find it abysmal, though. She doesn't have that disgusting pretentiousness that Nancy Pearl has for all those "Book Lust" series; I can't stand them. Fadiman just seems to love reading and grew up in a family of literature types surrounded by books.

You made me want to go through it again--I remember liking the "My Odd Shelf" essay:

"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner. George Orwell's Odd Shelf held a collection of bound sets of ladies' magazines from the 1860s, which he liked to read in his bathtub. Philip Larkin had an especially capacious Odd Shelf crammed with pornography, with an emphasis on spanking. Vice Admiral James Stockdale, having heard that Frederick the Great had never embarked on a campaign without his copy of The Encheiridion, brought to Vietnam the complete works of Epictetus, whose Stoic philosophy was to sustain him through eight years as a prisoner of war." Relatable anecdotes about books interspersed with literary trivia, a look at how a life surrounded by family who weren't functionally illiterate might be.

If you didn't want to read Fadiman, but still liked the idea of this kind of personal-essays-about-books, you might try to see if Michael Dirda is more your type. He's my favorite for the "genre".

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 27 22:18:27 2015 No.7398102 >>7398056 >>7398100 Oh, I didn't actually answer you, but I can't remember now. Probably saw it on a Goodreads list or something.

Anonymous Fri Nov 27 22:36:21 2015 No.7398141

>>7398100
>>7398102
That doesn't sound nearly as bad as what I read in the store (maybe it was one of Fadiman's other books?). I had the impression she wrote very sentimental, whimsical, quirky columns on the "bookworm XD" life. Maybe I got her confused with someone else?

Anonymous Fri Nov 27 23:14:34 2015 No.7398203

>>7398141
You couldn't really consider her a poseur "bookworm XD" type. Not like reddit-tier, or whatever. She might not be an academic per se, but she went to Harvard, teaches with Yale, had authors for parents. It'd be hard to not be well-read at that point.

All those adjectives probably apply to her, but I don't think any of them are necessarily negative. Quirky when you're vying for attention is different from genuine dedication to off-kilter interests. Her "Odd Books" shelf is several dozen on polar exploration, which she loved enough to work as a mountaineering instructor and to travel to the Arctic for writing assignments.

I just reread "Marrying Books" again too--there are some "whimsy" bits that fall flat, like hoping for the death of an interior decorator who arranged books by color/size. Other bits I like: "We kept my copy of Middlemarch, read at eighteen, in which were registered my nascent attempts at literary criticism (page 37: "Grrr"; page 261: "Bullshit"; page 294: "Yccch")". It's nice to hear about the authors who've sorted their books by nationality/chronologically within that (that's how I do it), and to read about someone else having the trouble of what to do with multiple copies when you merge your collections. She writes nicely, too.

I'm not sure who you'd mistake her for, but there's probably a ton of YA-blogger-type books about books like that out there. Haven't read anything else from her though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 01:00:38 2015 No.7398431 >>7398203 >She might not be an academic per se >All those adjectives probably apply to her Then she's shit. >I don't think any of them are necessarily negative. Fuck off

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 01:04:01 2015 No.7398438 >>7396493 Wouldn't take those for two bucks 2bh. Maybe the Donkey hoe.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 01:09:38 2015 No.7398443 >>7398431 What's negative about sentimentality?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 01:12:23 2015 No.7398449 Verso has 50 percent off all their books until the end of the year. Unfortunately the Ego and its Own is out of stock.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 01:15:07 2015 No.7398455 >>7398438 I know, opinions right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 01:45:37 2015 No.7398510 >>7396439 30% off maxes out at $10 off for the amazon coupon. Proust was my first thought as well. I was bummed when I put it on my wish list at $55 only to see it jump to $60+ a few weeks later.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 01:54:37 2015 No.7398524 >>7396314 It's Penguin, what did you expect?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 02:06:23 2015 No.7398545 >>7398524 Hm, yeah I guess. I wasn't expecting it to fade so quickly from just holding it. Hopefully the B&N Leatherbound classics I've ordered don't do anything similar.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 02:11:15 2015 No.7398554 >>7398545 >B&N Leatherbound classics LOL

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 02:12:16 2015 No.7398556 >>7398554 W-why is that funny. Did I make a mistake?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 02:15:00 2015 No.7398561 >>7398556 It's again a gaudy and cheap way of getting "something nice" without knowing better. It still features pages with words on them so there's nothing wrong there, it's just the fact that it's pleb flypaper that it gets flak.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 02:17:10 2015 No.7398566 >>7398561 Oh, I see.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 28 02:22:29 2015 No.7398574 >>7398561 And hopefully they fuck up the printing less than they do with their paperbacks. I've gotten a few defective books from them before, never again.

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