/lit/ christmas

[Anonymous No.7500945]

What did you get for christmas,/lit/?
For me it's pic related

[Anonymous No.7500977]

I have the best girlfriend ever

[Anonymous No.7501352]

>>7500977
>Gene Wolfe
>girlfriend
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.7501500]

>>7501352


I'm sorry you're a miserable shitposter, anon. Life will get better.

[Anonymous No.7501503]

>>7500977
Fuck off to Reddit, pleb.

[Anonymous No.7501526]

>>7500977
Sounds awesome man.

I got a sweatshirt and a small lego package with a dude, submarine and an octopus.
My aunt wanted to get me some pope Benedict but wasn't sure what I've already read so I'll go to a bookstore some time next week and get me some Faulkner. Saw good cheap editions of Absalom, Absalom! and Sound and the Fury. Hopefully I'll get that.

[Anonymous No.7501545]

>>>/soc/
FUCK OFF

[Anonymous No.7501816]

Suffering.

[Anonymous No.7501831]

finally fucking arrived

[Anonymous No.7502027]

>>7501831
Enjoy it, this is my favorite. Welcome to the patrician race

[Anonymous No.7502062]

Asking for a hardback turn of the century edition of Hunchback of Notre Dame that I saw on Amazon. I love, love, love Les Miserables so I figure I would like it. Don't know if I got it yet - still Christmas Eve here.

[Anonymous No.7502103]

Seriously the first time I've ever asked for or received a book for Christmas, hoping it gets me motivated to read some of my backlog.

[Anonymous No.7502128]

>>7501831

What is this, exactly?

[Anonymous No.7502674]

The New York Trilogy / Auster
In Search of Lost Time vol. 3-6 / Proust
LotR / Tolkien
Silmarillion / Tolkien
Pale Fire / Nabokov
The Defense / Nabokov
Women and Men / McElroy
No Longer Human / Dazai
House of Leaves / Danielewski

[Anonymous No.7502676]

>>7502674
based
based
bretty gud
quite gud
based
bretty gud
giga-based (nigga who bought you this it expensive as fuck my copy cost me 150$)
ok
ok

[Anonymous No.7502684]

>>7500945
Jung's Red Book (the full sized version!)
Delany's Dhalgren
What If? (xkcd-creator's book)
A couple of books on working/publishing as an artist/writer

[Anonymous No.7502688]

>>7502684
Shit, and "The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms"

My mother bought it and basically said that she didn't know what the hell it is.

[Anonymous No.7502811]

Easton Gatsby, Easton portrait of the artist as a young man, and a modern library Ulysses. And this is just Christmas eve.

[Anonymous No.7502819]

[ab No.7502899]

[Anonymous No.7502934]

Just ordered these two using the gift card Santa got me

[Anonymous No.7502977]

For me i bought the republic and dorian grey

[Anonymous No.7502979]

>>7500945
i got a sweet reminder of my soul crushing loneliness.

[Anonymous No.7502987]

>>7500945
I'm reading that translation with the original and it has many faults. Although it's the first attempt at bringing the book to Hungarians, hopefully after this one others will try to improve upon it.

[Anonymous No.7502989]

The Witness - Saer
Las Nubes - Saer
The Seven madmen - Arlt
Umbrella - Self
Being and time - Heidegger
The Assistant - Walser
Un barbare en Asie - Michaux

[Anonymous No.7503019]

>fetishizing books
>fetishizing the list that shows your ordered books

[Anonymous No.7503030]

Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally. I haven't read any books from 2015 yet, so I am excited. I really like the new book smell.
I also got "The Simpsons Family History" a picture book about the trials of a humble family man named Homer.

[Anonymous No.7503096]

Edgy teen starter kit.

I'm 26.

[Anonymous No.7503109]

pic related

JUST

[Anonymous No.7503111]

>>7503019
Nice insight friend, you truly are an intellectual giant

[Anonymous No.7503113]

Signed copy of Buddha of Suburbia
Then We Came to the End
You Bright and Risen Angels
a collection of Elena Ferrante

not a bad haul

[Anonymous No.7503118]

>>7503019
No need to be that jealous, my friend. Maybe you haven't got any books this year, but it's not the end of the world; maybe next time, don't be afraid.

[Anonymous No.7503120]

>>7502811
Fuck books, how's the tea?

>>7501816
Jealous. I really should get around to ordering those.

[Anonymous No.7503129]

>>7503109
I like the celebrations chocolate pack.
All of them are nice presents,besides the lottery tickets.

[Anonymous No.7503133]

>>7503109
>Lynx
>American lottery tickets

Poor continuity.

[Anonymous No.7503140]

I got:

The Canterbury Tales
The Mahabharata
The Tale of Genji
The Shahnameh
Anthology of Classic Chinese Poetry

All of which I asked for, but pretty good to expand my reading outside of just the Western Canon.

[Anonymous No.7503144]

>>7503140
Is the Canterbury Tales in original language?

[Anonymous No.7503153]

>>7503140
Which Genji translation?

[Anonymous No.7503156]

I got Blood Meridian and The catcher in the rye

[Anonymous No.7503160]

>>7502934
Very good books. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

[Anonymous No.7503166]

Anyone get an ereader for christmas?

[Anonymous No.7503168]

>>7503144
>>7503153
vultures

[Anonymous No.7503177]

>>7503096
>ebert

too edgy for me

[Anonymous No.7503188]

>>7503144
Yeah
>>7503153
Waley

[Anonymous No.7503191]

>>7503096
Just had Persepolis turn up too.

And Lynx shower gel and body spray. Conflicting.

[Anonymous No.7503194]

>>7503188
My least favourite Genji translation, but it's still pretty good. Enjoy.

[Anonymous No.7503199]

A sailor who fell from grace with the sea
The sound of waves
The temple of the golden pavillion
My friend Hitler and other plays by Yukio Mishima
Spring snow
Any idea after which book to read the plays so as to get the most from them?

[Anonymous No.7503226]

>>7503199
Just read patriotism senpai. It's his greatest aesthetic achievement, by far.

[Anonymous No.7503234]

>>7503109
Lynx Africa is the fucking shit.

[Anonymous No.7503235]

>>7503194
I went for it because it seemed to have by far the best prose style from the extracts I read

Which one do you prefer?

[Anonymous No.7503241]

My sister got me pic related. I also bought a few of Deleuze books + History of Madness by Foucault. Going to have a Very Continental Christmas

[Anonymous No.7503244]

A watch I asked for, an electric toothbrush and underwear

[Anonymous No.7503247]

>>7500977
what the hell is this? ive never even heard of gene wolf until just 3 minutes ago in like 2 threads. Apparently i have to read like 50 books about new suns and now this?

[Anonymous No.7503251]

>>7503235
Seidensticker. The Randall one is easy to read but he doesn't have quite the same poetic sensibility.

[Anonymous No.7503254]

>>7503247
Gene Wolfe is /lit/s select speculative fiction writer. He's very good.

[Anonymous No.7503271]

>>7503247
He is arguably the best writer within sff and is a fantastic writer overall.

[Anonymous No.7503279]

>>7503271
>>7503254
yeah but i cant even find the book he posted. Planet Engineering? It sounds interesting but google cant even find it.

[Anonymous No.7503283]

>>7503226
Any particular edition senpai?

[Anonymous No.7503285]

>>7503279
Can't you google the exact title?

http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Wolfe.htm

[Anonymous No.7503288]

>>7503279
Plan(e)t Engineering (1984) (published by Boskone when Wolfe was guest of honor; contains previously uncollected short stories, a new essay on Book of the New Sun and map, several poems, and an article by Wolfe on robots from Plant Engineering magazine.

[Anonymous No.7503291]

>>7502811
which edition of ulysses is that? (as in the text)

[Anonymous No.7503292]

Signed copy of the Bible

[Anonymous No.7503293]

>>7503288
amazon says 100 dollars for a paperback edition. Am i dyslexic?

[Anonymous No.7503302]

Woes of the true policeman
To the lighthouse
The man who was thursday
The man without qualities
The idiot
King Lear
Anthony and Cleopatra
The Portrait of a lady
Mill on floss
The diary of a nobody
Vanity Fair

Based

[Anonymous No.7503315]

[Anonymous No.7503329]

From my mother-in-law.

[Anonymous No.7503340]

>>7500945

Collected Works of William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost - Milton
Dead Souls - Gogol
Anne Karenina - Tolstoy
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
White Noise - DeLillo
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable - Beckett
Dubliners - Joyce
The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Campbell
Lord of the Flies - Golding

Very grateful. Shakespeare alone should take up a good portion of next years reading.

[Anonymous No.7503368]

>>7503340
how do you think The Hero With a Thousand Faces will be?

[Anonymous No.7503378]

I'm a Jew, but my dad gifted me a Kindle copy of Radio Benjamin yesterday for some reason. Should be a fun read, I like what Benjamin I've read.

>>7503096
Shit-tier TVU album senpai
Also
>Ché

[Anonymous No.7503379]

I don't read much. I don't really know how to 'browse' books as in how to choose what I read.

It is so easy to find new music I like with sites like RateYourMusic.

I like Cormac McCarthy's NCFOM and BM. I'm thinking on ordering his Border trilogy for 20 euros.

I also 'like' the discussion I've seen about Gravity's Rainbow and I think I would enjoy that book based on discussion of it in here.

I guess I'm asking for some /lit/core chart to get me into reading`? Like /mu/ has their mucore chart that has black metal, pop, rock etc.

Do you have one?

[Anonymous No.7503383]

>>7503379
Get a Goodreads account, it's great for finding new books, and seeing what fellow /lit/ browsers are reading.

Check the sticky as well, or go in a chart thread.

[Anonymous No.7503385]

>>7503383
I found the chart thread and it had /lit/core charts that have lots of books from various areas.
>>7503383
>>7491286 (OP)
>>7491291
>>7491295

[Anonymous No.7503388]

plus a £10 waterstones voucher

[Anonymous No.7503395]

250 Euros

[Anonymous No.7503396]

How can you people read translations? You might as well read Wikipedia summary at that point

[Anonymous No.7503398]

>>7500945
Sucks to be Hungarian if you like Pinecone desu, though they put out Bleeding Edge just recently. Original language meme, etc.

[Anonymous No.7503401]

Got this plus Slaughterhouse Five and The Doors of Perception.

Also, my grandma got me brave new world and a clockwork orange but they're written for native German speakers and have a fuck tonne of German notes.

Either/Or, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and a collection of Borge's works are in the mail still.

[Anonymous No.7503402]

>>7503271
I wouldn't go that far, Wolfe owes a lot to Jack Vance.

[Anonymous No.7503407]

>not buying everything on boxing day

[Anonymous No.7503410]

Dune - Frank Herbert
The Postman - David Brin
Being and Time - Martin Heidegger
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

Alongside some socks

[Anonymous No.7503416]

>>7503402
He owes far less to Vance than people assume. His influence is aesthetic, Proust, Chesterton and Borges are the real, deep influence on Wolfe.

[Anonymous No.7503441]

>>7503378
Shit TVU is still God tier though, although it is their weakest album.

Che is a curiosity. I'm expecting to dislike him but he's an important historical figure.

[Anonymous No.7503477]

While I specifically told everyone that I wanted any classic novels, or any book from exactchange.com, I received only an autobiography of John Keats (what the fuck) and a collection of Poe's poems. What is the point in getting me tripe I didn't ask for? I'd rather have nothing because now I have to store it.

I know I'm a huge asshole for feeling anything less than overwhelming joy that my parents even considered to get me books but christ - I gave them a hand written list and got nothing on it. It isn't like they're expensive either so idk

[Anonymous No.7503478]

>>7503388
enjoy bologna senor

[Anonymous No.7503485]

What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.7503490]

>>7503477
>autobiography of John Keats
>autobiography

lol

[Anonymous No.7503493]

>>7503485
A literary experience

[Anonymous No.7503495]

>>7503490
You can't make this up. It's like 600 pages of the mans life, by someone else. Why in the name of God...

[Anonymous No.7503496]

>>7502899
>reading books written by contemporary jews

[Anonymous No.7503497]

>>7503495
you mean biography then, you retard

also Keats biography by Andrew Motion is one of my favourite books ever

be grateful you pleb

[Anonymous No.7503501]

>>7503485
the greatest literary work of the last 60 years

[Anonymous No.7503506]

>>7503485
At first you'll think "What the fug is all this weird shit? I don't understand anything." and then things will gradually start making sense, and then eventually you'll become a fellow Wolfeposter.

[Anonymous No.7503509]

>>7503497
What's good about jt

[Anonymous No.7503510]

>>7503485
Judging from all the Wolfeposters, you'll grow an immense neckbeard and become insufferable

[Anonymous No.7503519]

>>7503510
Or grow a neckbeard and become an insufferable anti-Wolfe poster

[Anonymous No.7503524]

>>7503497
It's Christmas. Be ashamed of yourself you rude cunt.

[Anonymous No.7503525]

>>7503519
it's one huge neckbeard-jerk

[Anonymous No.7503536]

>>7500945
One of those Barns and Nobel's big books, it was Lovecraft but it gets fucking glitter everywhere
my mom found me an old edition of Gravitys Rainbow.

I'm dreading my family diner, should i go on ambien? Shit's better than xanax

[Anonymous No.7503537]

>>7501831
>>7502128
Seconded, does this book exist?

[Anonymous No.7503542]

>>7503536
Do some metta meditation and smoke a fat doobie

[Anonymous No.7503552]

Got this. What am I in for /lit/?

[Anonymous No.7503556]

>>7503552
you're in for the complete fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.7503558]

>>7501526
Reading TSaTF right now for the first time, it's freaking great

But you didn't need me to tell you that.

[Anonymous No.7503561]

>>7503340
Nice haul

[Anonymous No.7503565]

>>7503477
Man that sucks. I'm sorry buddy. I'm about to open gifts but I fully anticipate the same happening to me, Merry Christmas you poor cuck

[Anonymous No.7503568]

>>7503552
Just got this you can expect getting glitter fucking everywhere. Nice read so far though

>>7503542
Can't smoke reefer friendo

[Anonymous No.7503571]

I only asked for books and my dad got me one gift: a signed, first ed copy of On Writing

Honestly, while I was skeptical and a little disappointed at first, im loving it. Very inspiring and throughly enjoyable. A nice surprise and surprisingly insightful. I've abouded King my entire life and probably will continue to do so, but I love this book this far. I'll use the cash I got from assorted relatives to get books I enjoy.

[Anonymous No.7503572]

A Brief History of Seven Killings - James
City on Fire - Hallberg
Mao II - DeLillo
Trois Contes - Flaubert
La Vie mode d'emploi - Perec

[Anonymous No.7503575]

>>7503571
*avoided

[Anonymous No.7503578]

>>7501831
fuck off m8.

>>7502128
>>7503537
He's goofing us.

[Anonymous No.7503587]

>>7503565
I reasoned my way out of it. I realized that they love me unconditionally and are simply enormous plebs and thought I'd love them. I will read them and tell them they were great reads.

Besides I bought myself The Brothers Karamazov and my favorite book to read this time of year; Wuthering Heights. Love that book, I even named my fat orange cat Heathcliff.

Merry Christmas

[Anonymous No.7503591]

Haven't started opening presents yet, but I ordered Stoner and Infinite Jest with an Amazon card.

So far the tally of passive aggressive family members giving me gifts with glitter is only one. I'll keep you guys posted on my glitter tally.

[Anonymous No.7503594]

got these books, a kindle paper white, a few clothes, and a 2000 piece puzzle.

Pretty dope Christmas desu senpai

[Anonymous No.7503604]

>>7503587
>autobiography of Keats
>not appreciating this
>calling your parents enormous plebs for getting you a book on Keats
>one of the greatest and most inspiring poets ever
>died young
>knew he would die young by some weird sense of prophecy
>not wanting to read this book

You'll appreciate this with time, my man. Give it a shot. Read some odes online. That's a fantastic gift

[Anonymous No.7503608]

>>7503604
I'm not going to read some gay ass poetry. My parents are banal, trite, plebs, I asked *specifically* for other books, and those erroneous fools couldn't manage a single task such as that. Is it so fucking hard to find Infinite Jest? Maybe for a pleb like you or my parents, but a child could complete such a task.

[Anonymous No.7503612]

>>7503378
>he thinks Loaded is shit tier
kill yourself my man

[Anonymous No.7503613]

>>7503608
You're making it a bit too obvious now.

[Anonymous No.7503614]

>>7503608
>I'm not going to read some gay ass poetry.

2/10

[Anonymous No.7503618]

>>7503608
This isn't me

>>7503604
Thanks for explaining it. I just got my hopes up and got something I didn't expect. I'm actually thirty goes in now and I like it

[Anonymous No.7503622]

>>7503292
which author signed it?

[Anonymous No.7503628]

I got a bunch of clothes, some cologne, a travel bag, and a macbook pro, as far as non-lit things go. lit-wise, I got this months issues of a few periodicals i like to get every now and again, library of america editions of Elmore Leonard and James Baldwin novels, a norton anthology of postmodern american poetry, and a few u. of minn. press editions of Deluge's books.

[Anonymous No.7503631]

>>7503401
pretty good haul m8. I assume you've read the Stranger? The Plague is objectively his best and the Myth is pretty solid as well. Need to pick up the fall as well

[Anonymous No.7503633]

>>7503407
>yurofags

[Anonymous No.7503639]

>>7502899
is that the Mozza autobiography or something else?

[Anonymous No.7503645]

>>7503618
I don't know if you like poetry, but read:

When I have fears that I may cease to be
This living hand, now warm and capable
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Bright Star
Time's sea hath been five years
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
To Autumn (the most perfect poem ever written)
Endymion (Book 1, rest is shit)
The Fall of Hyperion

Apart from the last two they're all pretty short and give you an overview of his ouvere. Keats is the greatest lyric poet in the English language

[Anonymous No.7503646]

>>7503495
>by somebody else
>Autobiography

nice..

[Anonymous No.7503647]

>>7500945
I got:
Stoner - John Williams
Fortune Smiles - Adam Johnson
My Struggle 1 - Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Lost in the Funhouse - John Barth
Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle

[Anonymous No.7503650]

>>7503536
ugh, the Barns and Nobel's books, if Im thinking of the right thing, are some of the ugliest things on the planet.

>glitter on a book

I think Im going to be sick.

[Anonymous No.7503654]

>>7503587
Girl?

[Anonymous No.7503659]

>>7503646
I would explain that I was memeing but I think I would rather take the loss on this one. My mistake.
>>7503645
I will look those up now. I'm relatively new to /lit/ so and hadn't heard of Keats before but if he's as good as you say then this is a nice gift. The copyright inside the book is 1893 which is itself quite novel

[Anonymous No.7503667]

>>7503654
No not girl

[Anonymous No.7503668]

>>7503608
>Infinite meme
>a classic

[Anonymous No.7503673]

>>7503659
Well if it's a Victorian biography then it's probably not going to be that good. But yeah, Keats is one of my literary heroes. At the age of 24 he wrote a sequence of odes that are the most brilliant poems anyone's ever written, then died of tuberculosis a year later.

[Anonymous No.7503678]

>>7503628
Deleuze*

i'm still getting the hang of the autocorrect

[Anonymous No.7503691]

>>7503650
Despite the hideous design the Poe collection is probably the best out of all his collections.

Everything else they do is awful.

[Anonymous No.7503692]

>>7503659
>hadn't heard of Keats before
I hope this is b8. He's literally one of the greatest English poets of all time

Go read his Odes senpai

[Anonymous No.7503693]

Since this is a board about books I shall only post the books I got.

[Anonymous No.7503697]

>>7503693
What an odd combination.

[Anonymous No.7503701]

Mom bought me the DFW Reader....
>excerpts from 3 novels and 3 short story collections I already own and have read
>p-plus his teaching notes


....thanks mom, I love it ;_;

[Anonymous No.7503702]

>>7503697
Still trying to read the classics atm.

[Anonymous No.7503704]

>>7503702
Have you read Aristotle's Physics?

[Anonymous No.7503708]

Comfort and some great books

After hearing the horror stories I'm even happy to say that this edition of GR is typo free

[Anonymous No.7503712]

>>7503704
Yeah I have indeed

[Anonymous No.7503714]

>>7503693
Wordsworth Tolstoy? Mate...

[Anonymous No.7503716]

>>7503714
It... was a g-gift
;_;

[Anonymous No.7503721]

>>7503714
Wordsworth Tolstoy is Maude IIRC, which Tolstoy himself approved

[Anonymous No.7503722]

Just a watch and some cash so far. Later when my gf and I exchange presents I think she got me an Everymans Library book.

[Anonymous No.7503724]

How'd I do lads?

[Anonymous No.7503728]

>>7503622
God

[Anonymous No.7503729]

What's the best publisher to buy the James Joyce trilogy? I got some cash and I'd like Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans' Wake

[Anonymous No.7503730]

>>7503712
Ah that's good then, I've seen people start with metaphysics, doesn't work well.

>>7503714
>>7503716
Who's the translator? I doubt it's anything bad, if it's Garnett then she's fine, but the Maudes are the best.

[Anonymous No.7503731]

>>7503693
Might as well throw the Martian in the garbage. Those are horrible editions W & P and Ulysses. Can only image what the translation is on that.

[Anonymous No.7503735]

>>7503731
Not that guy, but what is wrong with the Ulysses edition? The text won't change just because it's a cheap publisher.

[Anonymous No.7503736]

>>7503708
>he hasn't ALREADY read GR
>he got the SHITTIEST EDITION absolutely RIDDLED with ERRORS

HAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHAHHAHHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY FUCK AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

[Anonymous No.7503740]

>>7503708
Enjoy reading the edition with whole sections removed

[Anonymous No.7503743]

>>7503730
>Garnett

literally the worst translations. She is so dry and literally sucks the life out of the stories

[Anonymous No.7503747]

>>7503724
>stirner

1/10

[Anonymous No.7503749]

>>7503736
>>7503740
This is one of my favourite /lit/ memes t b h

Initial pressing was riddled with errors, later pressings fixed them after the ridiculous amount of complaints

[Anonymous No.7503750]

>>7503716
Well bugger me, it's Maude which is actually fantastic. Wordsworth are normally terrible for translations.

[Anonymous No.7503752]

>>7503724
>getting your family to buy your Stirner

pretty spooky

[Anonymous No.7503758]

>>7503735
it just looks really ugly desu, lad. I value an aesthetically eye pleasing book shelf

[Anonymous No.7503759]

>>7503729
Penguin Classics are really good. Dubliners and Portrait have pretty great endnotes and Ulysses is perfectly fine.

[Anonymous No.7503760]

>>7503750
Yeah just checked my book, I'm quite surprised also.
>>7503758
Since I didn't buy It no skin off my teeth can just be my note taking copy

[Anonymous No.7503761]

>>7503749
actually

1) the 'errors' were never fixed (confirmed)
2) the 'errors' is one sentence cut short (confirmed)
a) it is not a particularly good/important sentence

but still
>>he hasn't ALREADY read GR
>>HAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHAHHAHHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY FUCK AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

[Anonymous No.7503762]

>>7503759
>Penguin Classics are really good

>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.7503763]

This.

[Anonymous No.7503766]

>>7503761
Assuming it's the one at the end of 139-140 it's been corrected

[Anonymous No.7503767]

>>7503762
Fuck off, mate.

[Anonymous No.7503769]

Got a kindle. Will probably be torrenting books all day

[Anonymous No.7503771]

>>7501816
>hardcover
my worst mistake ever, the book is huge
sure you dont miss parts of the text but c'mon man

[Anonymous No.7503779]

>>7503766
It's the 'pens' one. Perhaps you're right, though I've checked a copy in a local bookstore less than a year ago and saw the error.

[Anonymous No.7503799]

Vince Flynn's stuff

[Anonymous No.7503820]

>>7503763
DFW szybko zszedł ze sklepów, nie uważasz? Pierwszy raz mi się zdarzyło, abym musiał specjalnie sprowadzać sobie to wydanie do mojej ulubionej księgarni, bo w czasie szukania, w sklepach internetowych można było kupić jedynie ebooka. Dobry gust, kolego.

[Anonymous No.7503845]

>>7503693
Hey, I read that Ulysses edition. You should download a couple books to aid with your reading, as well as the graph Joyce made, with the names of the chapters etc.. They didn't even bother to put the names on each way or an index to aid the reading. The Cover is one of the best i've seen by Wordsworth though

[Anonymous No.7503846]

>>7503235
The royall tyler version is meant to be highly acclaimed. I've not read it personally, but judging from the prose in his tale of the Heike translation , I can see why his version is praised

[Anonymous No.7503855]

>>7503845
Cheers for the tips anon, shall do that. Les mis probably has nothing on this.

[Anonymous No.7503861]

Got this one and a translation of Xenophon by Aquilino Ribeiro.

[Anonymous No.7503862]

>>7503631
Thanks mate, yeah i read it earlier this year, i want to read his essays too

[Anonymous No.7503872]

also got two Miles Davis records, and my brother got me an eBay gift card. probably going to pick up McCarthy - The Crossing and maybe another Mishima novel with that. pretty comfy Christmas overall.

[Anonymous No.7503920]

>>7503872
which two Davis records?

[Anonymous No.7503947]

These are all the books I hauled. Also received some sweaters, and about $2000.

Feels good being 18.

[Anonymous No.7503949]

>>7503920
Nefertiti and Ascenseur pour l'échafaud soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.7503951]

Thanks mom but I'll never be a rocket scientist

[Anonymous No.7503957]

>>7503947
Two thousand?

Cunting Christ.

[Anonymous No.7503970]

>>7503947
fucking rich Australians.

The Castle is really funny.

[Anonymous No.7503973]

>>7503957
I'm not rich, but my family is huge.

[Anonymous No.7503978]

>>7503949
niiiice

i got Nefertiti forever ago but still need Ascenseur

i really need On the Corner tho

[Anonymous No.7503981]

>>7503763
have the same shakespeare edition. it's a great shame that most of the plays are folios and not quarto editions....

[Anonymous No.7503982]

How'd I do?

[Anonymous No.7503987]

>>7503949
>Nefertiti

The title track is the best thing Davis has ever done imo

>>7503947
>18 years old
>receive two THOUSAND dollars along with about $300 in books for Christmas

You bourgeoisie motherfucker


I'm only bitter because I'm jealous t b h

[Anonymous No.7503990]

>>7503241
>Deleuze
Nice.
>Focoault
Hmmm...

[Anonymous No.7503993]

>>7503982
Good stuff. Being and time was kinda hard. But the rest will be fun

[Anonymous No.7503994]

>>7503978
He has so many excellent albums, it's nuts. Have you read his autobiography?

[Anonymous No.7504001]

Wooo.

[Anonymous No.7504012]

>>7503763
How come you got some in English but not others?

[Anonymous No.7504019]

>>7503410
>Being and Time - Martin Heidegger
like you can just read that like any other book and understand even a FRACTION of it

[Anonymous No.7504026]

>>7503973
That's not so bad then. But still... What do eighteen year olds buy these days? I thought you downloaded everything without paying.

Not to sound like even more of an old man but please... Save it or use it wisely. Don't piss it away. If I can condescend you for a moment, I hope you realise the value of money.

[Anonymous No.7504027]

>>7503973
>im not rich

m8.....

[Anonymous No.7504042]

>>7504026
>What do eighteen year olds buy these days?
drugs, food

>>7504027
I go to public school and drive a honda

[Anonymous No.7504049]

>>7503724
2 years worth of reading.jpeg

[Anonymous No.7504053]

>>7504042
>drive
m8...

[Anonymous No.7504095]

>>7503947
I was going to insult you, instead I'll just let you know that I'm jealous

[Anonymous No.7504106]

3 books of haiku, a biography of Alphonse Mucha, and Anna k

[Anonymous No.7504112]

>>7504106
Almost a haiku.

Three books of haiku,
Alphonse Mucha biography,
Anna Karenina.

[Anonymous No.7504120]

>>7503947
rich faggot, etc

[Anonymous No.7504134]

>>7503724
beautiful

[Anonymous No.7504177]

Stuff from my wife.

[Anonymous No.7504216]

>>7504177
what edition is that 2666?

[Anonymous No.7504226]

The Histories - Herodotus
The Peloponnesian War (Landmark) - Thucy
The Pre-socratics Oxford World classics
The complete works of Plato

[Anonymous No.7504236]

>>7504226
>Herodutus

Rev up those giant gold-mining ants

[Anonymous No.7504241]

>>7503096
Do something about your god awful film taste

[Anonymous No.7504262]

>>7504216
SAMMAKKO 2015

[Anonymous No.7504278]

Congrats on the hauls guys. Merry Xmas.

my family is broke this year so we all agreed to get each other nothing still ended up being a great Xmas though.

[Anonymous No.7504282]

>>7503724
>Gaddis
Into the trash

[Anonymous No.7504294]

more importantly, what did you guys buy with the amazon gift cards you got?

[Anonymous No.7504296]

>>7504278
that's great anon, my family is both broke and full of mutual hatred

[Anonymous No.7504297]

>>7504278
merry christmas, anon

at least you gave the present of your presence to your family

[Anonymous No.7504302]

>>7504278
"He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap,"
- Psalm 113:7

Merry Christmas anon

[Anonymous No.7504313]

I'm so fucking pissed. reeee

My mom got me some john green novels and go set a watchman (probably from the fucking drug store) when I gave her a very specific list of all the fucking books I wanted. Good thing the stupid bitch gave me $400 cash I can use to buy books I want but I was going to use that money for a new gaming/reading chair....Now I'm gonna have to do chores for a week or two before I have enough after buying the books I want. I fucking hate my mom.

[Anonymous No.7504314]

Anyone heard of "The Liberal Imagination"? Got it from my parents never heard of it myself.

Considering how Conservative they are it might have been picked for the title as some sort of warning to 'let me know they know'.

[Anonymous No.7504324]

>>7504313
You are such a child. Goddam

[Anonymous No.7504334]

>>7504296
Yeesh. I'm sorry anon.
>>7504297
>>7504302
You guys are lovely. Thank you, merry Christmas :)

[Anonymous No.7504338]

>>7504334
Don't be sorry, I wrote that because I'm sorta happy for you. We're all one big /lit/ family.

[Anonymous No.7504345]

>>7503536
What's that image from desuwa senpai

[Anonymous No.7504353]

>>7504338

[Anonymous No.7504358]

>>7504314
I don't know much about it but it looks interesting. Your parents seem smart.

[Anonymous No.7504369]

A bookshop's giftcard, roughly around 17 dollars. PJs, socks, some tea (cinnanom-chocolate-green and chili-black and the classic ceylon earl grey). So you know, things I like. And I bought myself KoTOR 2 and Beckett's Molloy-Malone dies- The Unnameable

[Anonymous No.7504375]

>>7503568
I have it too, but mine has no glitter.

Literature-wise, I got

Voices from Chernobyl (hardcover)
Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra (color whatever edition)

Aside from those, I got coffee and cigar stuff.

[Anonymous No.7504376]

>>7504241
I am so fucking payrician itmhurts. Those films aren't even remotely representative of my taste.

For what it's worth, I spent last month watching the works of Bela Tarr in order from start to finish. Shit like Birdman and Inherent Vice will probably be sold after one viewing anyway.

Also, go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.7504383]

>>7504313
the forehead bothered me

[Anonymous No.7504387]

[Anonymous No.7504389]

>>7504376
I grew up in a Bela Tarr film.
Whose the patrician now?

[Anonymous No.7504391]

>>7504314
trilling wasn't conservative really, he was a leftist. it is a criticism of liberalism: its wholesale rejection of freud (someone who he likes for some reason) because science has no imagination, obsession with indivdiualism, and general dominance over the cultural landscape in which he writes in. if your parents wanted you to be a neocon, that'd be a very roundabout way of doing it. his essay on why anderson is shit is also shit. but he praises the anarchist politics of one of james' novels as underrated.

[Anonymous No.7504394]

>>7504376
>I'm so patrician
>Béla Tarr

He's a good director but shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.7504408]

>>7504376
This bear who used to dominate me was a big fan of Tarr, used to play Vig Mihaly while he fisted my ass in his dungeon. Really added to the ambience you know?

[Anonymous No.7504419]

>tfw wordsworth version of the idiot by dosto

[Anonymous No.7504428]

>>7504408
Was that a deleted scene? I'm assuming that was an outtake from Satantango but the symbolism was too obvious.

>>7504394
Why would you take that seriously? Anybody that refers to themself as a patrician is a deluded cunt. I just like films. Some may be considered pretentious rubbish and others "pleb shit". I don't care.

[Anonymous No.7504446]

>>7504313
2/10
>>7504324
Dumbass.

[Anonymous No.7504452]

>reading translations of English novels

Truly I am ashamed of my countrymen.

[Anonymous No.7504455]

My mother got me Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker and Bataille's Story of the Eye. Story of the Eye is a bit of a strange one to receive from her, it's just funny because she had no clue what it was about when she ordered it, she just knew that I enjoyed Bataille's theoretical/critical works. My dad got me an original print of a Gustave Doré woodcut that I'm incredibly stoked on and a Hamilton Jazzmaster.
I also got some nice alpaca wool socks, a new pair of slippers, a bottle of crown royal, and some nice soft new sheets for the bed at my house (I come back to my hometown for Christmas). Pretty good haul this year, as I get deeper into my 20s I keep expecting the gifts to diminish, but I'm lucky to have generous parents.

[Anonymous No.7504469]

>>7504278
The people you love are more important Than any other gift anon, Feliz Navidad

[Anonymous No.7504470]

>>7504376
>>7504376
>Shit like Birdman and Inherent Vice will probably be sold after one viewing anyway.
Goddamn! Knee-jerking at 26?

[Anonymous No.7504477]

I got $300 and a $1500 cruise ticket.
Kind of gutted when nobody got me any books though.

[Anonymous No.7504479]

>Will to power
>Romeo y Julieta cigars
>Auchentoshan Whisky
I can't tell if it was supposed to be ironic or not.

[Anonymous No.7504482]

gun germs and steel, collapse and the third chimpanzee

kill me

[Anonymous No.7504519]

>>7502062
I got it. As well as a new translation of Les Miserables. How excellent.

[Anonymous No.7504521]

I don't even have money to buy a good piece of meat, let alone a book.

[Anonymous No.7504531]

>>7503947
What is that photo? Christ..

[Anonymous No.7504533]

>>7504519
Happy for you anon. Les Miserables was really excellent. That description of Waterloo was the best war literature I've ever read. Some of the chapters about Abbeys and what Hugo thought about them went on for far too long imo

[Anonymous No.7504542]

>>7503771
Ah fuck are you serious? I made a thread asking if I should go paperback or hardcover and didn't get a response

[Anonymous No.7504546]

About £2000 and a new Ford. No fucking books though, which I actually asked for.

[Anonymous No.7504549]

>none of my family got me a book, or anything even slightly patrician

I deserve it for not explicitly telling anybody what I want but still annoying. At least I get to cheer myself up by spending the rest of the day reorganising my bookcase

[Anonymous No.7504566]

My grandpa got me Myth of Sisyphus and GR. I didn't ask him for them and I've never mentioned anything about Pynchon, so it really blew me away. He said he read the back and "it just sounded really good"

[Anonymous No.7504567]

[Anonymous No.7504576]

[Anonymous No.7504589]

>>7504576
What a fucking wannabe pleb
I hope you hate Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.7504603]

>>7504589
Merry Christmas anon

[Anonymous No.7504622]

Garner's American Usage, Third Edition

[Anonymous No.7504623]

>>7504282
>has never actually read Gaddis but wants to be in on the hilarious /lit/ shitposting
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.7504742]

>>7504603
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.7504797]

>>7504313
Don't be like that

[Anonymous No.7504938]

r8 my haul

[Anonymous No.7504978]

>>7504576
that GR edition is missing some passages m8.

[Anonymous No.7504987]

The Great Fires - Jack Gilbert
The Plague - Albert Camus
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

[Anonymous No.7504990]

>>7504521
lol

[Anonymous No.7504995]

>>7504938
i cant read the titles of your haul

[Anonymous No.7505012]

>>7503724
Pale fire is great, gonna go cop some Nabokov tomorrow myself.

[Anonymous No.7505048]

>>7500945

[Anonymous No.7505070]

>>7504623
>is incredibly insecure about his taste that he can't imagine people disliking an overrated writer
Wow you need to go into the trash along with Gaddis

[Anonymous No.7505104]

gf got me this
also a sherlock holmes anthology and the disaster artitst

[Anonymous No.7505106]

>Pynchon - V.
>Breton - Nadia
>DeLillo - White Noise
>Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
>Joyce - Dubliners
>Jsofjsixjsi - Memoirs of Hadrian
>Bök - Eunoia

Also got Stoner and Infinite Jest with a gift card.

Pretty happy with what I got. My backlog just gets more and more insane.

I still feel empty though

[Anonymous No.7505107]

>>7505104
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.7505110]

>>7504477
Someone's way of telling you to go outside more.

[Anonymous No.7505118]

>>7502674
house of leaves is great
dude has a new novel out now too but i cant remember what its called off the top of my head

[Anonymous No.7505158]

>>7504278
my family and i were kind of in the same boat
(my gf got me some things before christmas, though)

i made everyone intentionally incredibly shitty christmas cards with drawings of money in them and jokes
they loved them

[Anonymous No.7505200]

2666

[Anonymous No.7505268]

>>7504345
I wish knew anon. I am always posting with it I love love it lel

[Anonymous No.7505410]

>>7503571
Honestly, he's hit and miss, but On Writing is fucking great.

[Anonymous No.7505442]

Half Price Books and Barnes and Noble gift cards. Feels good nigga

[Anonymous No.7505458]

>>7505048
Really nice my man. People will flame with
>Chabon is pleb
and
>The Corrections is pleb
But they haven't read them. I absolutely refute the former and im unsure of the latter. Kav and Clay is phenomenal. Barthelme is also one of my favorite short story writers.

[Anonymous No.7505510]

>>7503594
campaigns of alexander is top notch

[Anonymous No.7505529]

An unexpected gift.

[Anonymous No.7505618]

>>7504566
He posts here m8

[Anonymous No.7505652]

Gravity's Rainbow
Naked Lunch
Dharma Bums
Hard Boiled Wonderland
Dien Cai Dau
Meditations in Green

[Anonymous No.7505731]

joyce's ulysses
breton's nadja

i think im in for a good time

[Anonymous No.7505747]

>>7505048
Franzen, Barthelme, and The Pale King are all fucking amazing
can confirm
good haul m8

[Anonymous No.7505751]

>>7503729
norton critical edition

[Anonymous No.7505757]

>>7505048
patrish

[Anonymous No.7505775]

Double Helix by James Watson
Round River by Aldo Leopold
Book of the New Sun
Leaves of Grass

I'm a happy man. I see that y'all have some good books as well. Enjoy it and merry Christmas.

-Anon

[Anonymous No.7505779]

Asked for goodwill giftcard got Purity instead, otherwise not bad. Relatives sent the Michael Christie...any anons know of his work?

[Anonymous No.7505789]

>>7505775
Sounds like a good haul but don't let Watson and Crook fool you.

They're goddamn thieving bastards

[Anonymous No.7505794]

>>7505779
Purity is pretty top tier
Richard Powers' Gold Bug Variations is the only thing I've heard you should touch. His other novels are at least above schmaltzy quality in terms of content tho so it aint all bad

If I fall I die is a coming of age story written by a canadian skateboarder

burn it with fire

[Anonymous No.7505798]

>>7505789
It was recommended by a professor of mine, but I do know that they weren't the only ones working towards the dna model. Did they actually steal work or something?

[Anonymous No.7505802]

>>7504576
return that GR edition, it is infamous
get this one >>7504566
also get Sometimes A Great Notion by Kesey its his best
infinite jest is one of the best books ever written, if you can make it page 200 you will finish it and reread it over and over every few years for the rest of your life

[Anonymous No.7505807]

>>7504314
>your parents are conservative and they got you bertrand russell
I'm fucking crying
yeah that history of philosophy book is extremely infamous btw, read it (since I assume you're a philosophy pleb) learn more about all the figures it mentions, and the sooner you come to hate it the better
John Barth is B A S E D by the way
Lost in the funhouse was what started DFW :3

[Anonymous No.7505812]

>>7505802
What's wrong with that edition of GR?

[Anonymous No.7505817]

>>7503949
>Nefertiti

patrician

>>7503724
that's a garbage edition of Kant but otherwise great

>>7503701
ey man it will save you space for trips and when you're goin out and stuff
:)

[Anonymous No.7505823]

>>7505812
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RBVC0DP41ALIK/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0143039946#RBVC0DP41ALIK

[Anonymous No.7505829]

>>7505823
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.7505833]

Got these five :D

merry xmas to everyone

[Anonymous No.7505861]

>>7505794
lol will do. mostly interested in plowing the dark for the stuff about VR, but yeah it sounds like a lot of his stuff is sci-fi with slightly better prose.

Anyone read Fowles before? Professor said, "You MUST read The Magus before traveling in Europe."

[Anonymous No.7505863]

>>7503166
I did, kindle paperwhite

[Anonymous No.7505870]

>>7505833
Though I'm not sure why, I have a strong aversion to the continued existence of Paglia...seems at times like the only time she speaks is when she is shit-talking Sontag, Foucault, and Hitchens. Curious to hear what you think of her original stuff.

[Anonymous No.7505894]

>>7505870
I agree, she can be annoying. I think the stuff she's written in the last 3-4 comes off as senile. However, she is extraordinarily well read in literature, art, and philosophy. Her books in which she surveys the history of a genre are fascinating and usually have unique alternative readings of the arts. For example, her comparison of Sade and Emily Dickinson in Sexual Personae.

[Anonymous No.7506027]

>>7505757
Thx
>>7505747
Thx
>>7505458
Interesting, I've actually heard next to nothing about Chabon on here even after his pulitzer

[Anonymous No.7506049]

>Gf is struggling all week getting me a present
>give her lits Top 100 and tell her to get me shit off of it

[Anonymous No.7506058]

I got these, a sweater, scratch tickets, tea, and spendin' money.

[Anonymous No.7506063]

>>7501831
Call me a pleb but I haven't seen this one before but now I'm intrigued. What's the context behind the book?

[Anonymous No.7506070]

>Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
>For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
>The Sun also Rises, Hemingway
>Against the Day, Pynchon
>Home, Toni Morrison
>1001 Afternoons in Chicago, Brian Hecht (collection of his editorials for the Tribune during the 1920s. Pretty interesting, desu)

Along with a board game, some clothes, and socks

[Anonymous No.7506071]

>>7505798
Im sure the bio will go over it, though im sure Watson would have you believe that stealing crystallography from Rosalind and giving her no credit for the discovery was an ethically sound choice. Aside though, they really are phenomenal scientists

[Anonymous No.7506141]

Kizumonogatari and I love it. Call my taste shit, I don't give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.7506177]

My sister got me this. Is this good?

[Anonymous No.7506181]

>>7506177
its shit

[Anonymous No.7506193]

>>7506181
why?

[Anonymous No.7506355]

>>7504369
>And I bought myself KoTOR 2 and Beckett's Molloy-Malone dies- The Unnameable

[Anonymous No.7506362]

>>7506177
arguably the greatest poem ever written

If that's David Raeburn then it's a good translation too

[Anonymous No.7506454]

>>7506362
How can a thick book be a single poem?

[Anonymous No.7507384]

>>7500945
Bump

[Anonymous No.7507425]

>>7500945
I got an iTunes gift card and I'm catching a flight tomorrow, but I'm not sure what to get that's under $25. Trying out audiobooks again.

[Anonymous No.7507428]

My parents got me the first three volumes of ISoLT, and my sister got me House of Leaves :3
Merry Christmas, y'all.

>>7503292
Did Harry sign it?

[Anonymous No.7507471]

Beneath the Wheel - Herman Hesse
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison is on the way
Pimp - Iceberg Slim is reserved
A good way to finish off school

[Anonymous No.7507720]

The Divine Comedy
Invisible Cities
Les Miserables
A Tale of Two Cities
Difficult Loves
The Baron in The Trees
Mr. Palomar
The Complete Cosmicomics
The Stranger
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Paradise lost
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Count of Monte Cristo
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Napoleon: A Life
This Side of Paradise