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Anonymous Mon Jul 4 22:24:19 2016 No.8242207 [Reply] [Original]

recent purchase thread.
you guys aren't buying enough books.
how will you show off to all your friends?

RAAAAAATTTTEEE EMMMMM

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 22:29:29 2016 No.8242220 vanity/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 22:30:18 2016 No.8242221 >>8242207 6.5/10

Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:18:47 2016 No.8242364

>>8242220
I slightly feel this way about it, but I too stock up on books when I have the opportunity, used ones and such. Keeping a fat collection of unread books makes me feel like a wannabe intellectual, so it actually keeps me motivated to read through them and understand them so if anyone asks about the literature in my abode I can avoid looking like a pseud.

>>8242207
Can't take a picture right now, but I got
>Works of Love
>Cloud Atlas
>Some Neitszsche stuff
>Heart of Darkness
>Tropic of Cancer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:32:11 2016 No.8242396 File: 1.27 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:33:13 2016 No.8242401 File: 1.14 MB, 2560x1536, 200hundredyears.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8242207 I do okay...?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:48:09 2016 No.8242443 >The ego and his own >House of leaves >The iliad >Oedipus the king >Confessions of st Augustine Drunk at a party, can't capitalize

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:51:44 2016 No.8242452 File: 34 KB, 326x499, 51EW55T156L._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is it good?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:54:17 2016 No.8242460 >>8242443 sounds like a fun party

Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:55:05 2016 No.8242462

I bought these three at a used bookstore. $10 each but I really couldn't have left the store without these beautiful Homer hardcovers. Printed in 1977, acid free paper... the dust cover looks raggedy but the actual books look like they have never been touched.

Probably my most prized books on my shelf right now. The everyman lolita was more frivolous, but still very nice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 4 23:57:58 2016 No.8242474 >buying books >not stealing them Doing it wrong OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 00:10:23 2016 No.8242519 File: 1.51 MB, 2448x3264, IMG_20160704_235022.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8242462 Forgot pic >>8242462

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 00:22:59 2016 No.8242557 >>8242401 Pretty cool >>8242443 Got meme'd >>8242474 >not supporting local bookstores

Anonymous Tue Jul 5 00:32:31 2016 No.8242582
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Been dreading the cost of Plutarch's Moralia for a few months. A complete set (minus the index volume) in perfect condition, unread, showed up at my favorite used book store for half the retail price. Couldn't help myself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 00:36:52 2016 No.8242592 File: 8 KB, 200x193, amazed pepe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8242519 >Lattimore Muh nigga

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 01:34:06 2016 No.8242775 >>8242582 Impressive anon, very patrician.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 02:26:07 2016 No.8242917 File: 785 KB, 2560x1440, DSC_0259.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A three volume text collection of chinese philosophy and Anna Karenina. The text collection is great.(and now I have 3 copies of Tao Te Ching and The art of War)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 02:39:23 2016 No.8242960 >>8242917 >Constance Garnett.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 02:42:13 2016 No.8242969 >>8242582 Very nice find. I wish I could find deals like that but sadly I live in Canada and Loeb is basically impossible to find. There are so many sets I want but the price just kills me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 02:43:22 2016 No.8242973 >>8242960 i mean constance garnett isn't all bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 02:58:13 2016 No.8243021 >>8242557 >implying i didn't see the guy that owns my local 2nd hand bookstore buy a beaten up copies of De Sade's bibliography from a charity shop for 2.50 each then mark them up to 28

Anonymous Tue Jul 5 03:18:58 2016 No.8243081

>>8242775
Thanks!

>>8242969
The pickings are pretty slim in the US, too; it's very rare for me to find a worthwhile Loeb, let alone in decent condition, let alone for a price that I would consider fair for a used book. But apparently the shop acquired ~120 Loebs all at once, all in perfect condition, all which they're selling for $20, or less as sets. Complete sets of Plutarch, Strabo, Livy, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Seneca, Homer, and Virgil, among others. I almost shit myself when I saw the shelf.

Which sets caught your eye that you can't find from another publisher? You have to go deeper than your standard "starting with the Greeks" to be forced to buy Loeb; not many people are even aware of the publisher.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 03:43:25 2016 No.8243125 File: 511 KB, 2048x1152, 20160705_024209.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How'd I do?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 04:09:02 2016 No.8243205 Nicer

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 04:28:39 2016 No.8243255 File: 2.92 MB, 3264x2448, 20160704_140349.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty much bought all the books in English from my local bookstore

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 04:29:06 2016 No.8243258 >>8243125 memed, you know nothing about these books

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 04:52:32 2016 No.8243296 recently picked up richard III, all the president's men, and the federalist.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 05:01:47 2016 No.8243311 File: 110 KB, 852x1136, 13616146_1325822330780797_397635889_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] new to /lit/, this is my reading list atm. finished metamorphosis and other stories, reading perfume now. rate pls

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 05:40:34 2016 No.8243346 >>8242460 Not bad. Won a couple rounds of beer pong. Chatted with a Hegel enthusiast about Schopenhauer, converted him, good time

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 05:56:24 2016 No.8243366 >>8243311 Perfume is overrated otherwise pretty good

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 06:00:04 2016 No.8243369 File: 72 KB, 640x480, airportspecials.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The store was doin' a 2-for-1 special.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 07:26:22 2016 No.8243466 >>8243369 Did you get a weird look from the cashier as they were scanning Lolita up?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 07:30:09 2016 No.8243473 >>8243466 Alex rapes an 11 year old in Clockwork Orange, so he should have got one for both.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 08:05:07 2016 No.8243512 >>8242592 more like big mistake

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 12:15:26 2016 No.8244124 File: 1.77 MB, 4032x3024, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8242207

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 13:56:13 2016 No.8244378 File: 936 KB, 2560x1440, DSC_0267.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got it for around 3 dollars

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 13:58:55 2016 No.8244386 File: 200 KB, 960x716, 1424466254818.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8242207 >not supporting your local library

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 14:00:41 2016 No.8244391 >>8244124 whats the kierkegaard translation/edition? hanay?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 15:47:13 2016 No.8244865 >>8243258 Don't be mean

Anonymous Tue Jul 5 16:52:29 2016 No.8245084
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Recently got into /lit/. Got all of these second-hand

The Plague and The Ode Less Travelled are in REALLY good condition. You wouldn't know that they're used at first glance

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:33:50 2016 No.8245510 Jacob's Room Portrait Joy in the Morning Invitation to a Beheading Run, Rabbit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:46:18 2016 No.8245538 >>8243258 >implying one can know anything significant about books without reading them

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:56:25 2016 No.8245565 >>8245084 Ode Less Travelled is a really fucking good ABC of poetry. I also like The Plague a lot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 18:57:46 2016 No.8245567 couldnt you get this stuff from project gutenburg?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 19:43:38 2016 No.8245717 >>8245084 >got into /lit/ kill yourself my man

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Anonymous Tue Jul 5 20:18:12 2016 No.8245843

My recent purchases:
God Emperor of Dune-Frank Herbert
Freedom-Jonathan Franzen
Life and Fate-Vassily Grossman
Les Miserables-Victor Hugo
Skylar-Dezső Kosztolányi
The Engineer of Human Souls-Josef Škvorecký
Parade's End-Ford Maddox Ford
America-Franz Kafka

How did I do? Looking forward to reading Parade's End, America for how different it is from the other two Kafka novels and God Emperor but I'm a little hazy on some events from the previous Dune novels since it's been about two years since I read Dune and Dune: Messiah, might need to do another reading of them before starting Children and God Emperor.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 20:19:23 2016 No.8245850 >>8245843 Oh, and The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 20:46:28 2016 No.8245945 >>8245717 no

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 21:45:57 2016 No.8246140 File: 463 KB, 548x743, Fiction time.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here's my recent book purchases. That cover on Marie Brennan's book looks even better in detail.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 21:51:08 2016 No.8246156 >>8246140 >That cover on Marie Brennan's book looks even better in detail. Yes it does, too bad the book was shit. I have heard that the series gets significantly better with the second book but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 21:56:41 2016 No.8246173 >>8245723 Finished reading Religio medici yesterday and started digging into Urne-buriall today. Really digging (oh god, please forgive me; I didn't mean it) his style and casual black humor. Have you read Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 22:04:39 2016 No.8246200 File: 2.45 MB, 2688x1520, IMAG0262.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8246173 These are my recent purchases.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 22:11:49 2016 No.8246228 File: 1.47 MB, 2974x2340, IMG_20160705_124456912_HDR~01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8242207

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 22:22:22 2016 No.8246281 >>8246173 I read about 70 pages at the bookstore but didn't buy it because I have a decent size backlog and I'm poor. I will definitly get it next time I buy books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 22:41:37 2016 No.8246372 >>8246200 >the good soldier svejk >maldoror meinigger.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 5 23:36:29 2016 No.8246533 File: 1.59 MB, 3024x3024, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty excited.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:00:21 2016 No.8246595 >>8246236 Is that? Is it? Omygod it is! we need a full lengh review and analysis for those of us who haven't got a copy asap!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 00:56:35 2016 No.8246747 >>8243125 Nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:35:55 2016 No.8248295 File: 197 KB, 1500x1000, DSC00119.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] how'd I do?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 12:39:42 2016 No.8248302 >>8248295 poorly

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