/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8306822]

*DING DING* STEP BACK PATRICIAN TRAIN COMING THROUGH

recent purchases thread.

[Anonymous No.8306824]

I'll take 'meme authors mentioned on /lit/ in the past week' for $400

[Anonymous No.8306833]

>>8306822
>basicbooks.jpeg

[Anonymous No.8306930]

True patrician coming through

[Anonymous No.8306932]

>>8306822
kek, pats don't buy used books you phony

[Anonymous No.8306937]

>>8306932
pft

[Anonymous No.8306943]

>>8306930
nyrb utter hipster trash.

[Anonymous No.8306944]

>>8306932
and especially not cheapo paperbacks

[Anonymous No.8306945]

>>8306943
boooooooo

[Anonymous No.8306947]

I seek spiritual enlightenment and wisdom, as well as to learn about the most influential figures in history so that I too, can be extremely influential.

[Anonymous No.8306975]

>>8306947
Best read that foreword too

[Anonymous No.8306977]

>>8306930
>a graphic novel

[Anonymous No.8306998]

>>8306975
Trust me, unless death prevents it, everything in this book is being read. I'm in a rough patch of my life

[Anonymous No.8306999]

>>8306977
>not acquiring /li/ graphic novels to help introduce your less lit-inclined teenage students to Kafka

If i didn't get this, i'm a shitty teacher to be

[Anonymous No.8307006]

>>8306998
Solace in literature and philosophy is always great, but when push comes to shove if a problem can be confronted directly, it really is your best bet

[Anonymous No.8307022]

>>8306999
Thank god for all those weeaboos you'll win over.

[Anonymous No.8307026]

>>8307022
If you really think you're better than graphic novels, you're clearly a teenager using lit to prop yourself up as superior ti others

[Anonymous No.8307038]

>>8307026
lmaoooooo

[Anonymous No.8307107]

>>8307026

[Anonymous No.8307125]

>>8307006
My problem is that I'm not satisfied with who I am, I'm not satisfied with my current living situation. This is me confronting my problem directly. I eat healthy, I've been exercising daily (as I type this I'm dripping in sweat and my shorts are soaked), In the past six months I've received two promotions at my work, I'm moving, and I'm becoming a more well read person.

My biggest problem is that I'm very judgemental of others, I have a superiority complex I can't seem to shake, yet I'm never satisfied with who I am, I always want to be better, and I can't seem to find other people who are like me

You might be thinking I have some special snowflake syndrome, the cause of which being rich parents who pampered me too much. But I grew up in homeless shelters and projects, I've had to scavenge for food as a child before I was even ten.

I'm hoping the wisdom of Gautama Buddha can help

[Anonymous No.8307167]

>>8307125
Nah my fiancé and I have the same thing and she grew up homeless multiple times and all that

Really it just comes with time and understanding that you and most if what you care about really doesn't matter. I mean, congrats dude you love avant lit/film/free jazz, whatever but who cares? You're an asshole because of it and posteuring because you need to feel special.

Eventually you face that fact and learn to Just let it roll off and accept what you are and what you like, and take others as they may be

[Anonymous No.8307202]

>>8307167
Well I at least don't treat people like an asshole, I'm kind and only wish to be a guiding light in people's lives. However, without words I have a distaste for how they conduct their lives. Not to the point that I would take away personal freedom however

[Anonymous No.8307215]

>>8307202
You're fine then desu

Always good to keep improving yourself, but you're clearly a well adjusted soul

[Anonymous No.8307220]

Only physical book I've bought in a few weeks.

D...did I do good, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.8307333]

>>8307220

If there is anything the Japanese do NOT need, it is life lessons from Nietzsche.

I fuggin need a copy

[Anonymous No.8307336]

>>8306930
>tolstaya
ew

[Anonymous No.8307355]

>>8306822

Here you go

[Anonymous No.8307360]

>>8307333
>You will never have a Nietzsche phone strap

[Anonymous No.8307363]

>>8307220
How do I look this book up?

[Anonymous No.8307364]

>>8307220
Reminds me of this book that originated from japan and sold a ton among eastern asian countries. The title translates literally as "Hyper-translated Nietzsche's Words". It basically decontexualized everything from Nietzsche and paraphrased author's shitty life pro-tips in Nietzsche's words.

[Anonymous No.8307368]

>>8306822
>A Fan's Notes
Well done, OP.

[Anonymous No.8307373]

>>8307364
I'm not a book to get to know the logic of the philosopher called Nietzsche, this is.
It this a do for touching the positive part of the sensibility of a man named Nietzsche.
At the time of the mood that feeling depressed I was, pick up this book in the shop, just at that time, to find the one sentence that I wanted encouragement saying, was buying impulse.
I think it was a correct answer according to the impulse.

[Anonymous No.8307395]

Vollmann :)

[Anonymous No.8307410]

middle three are recent purchases top is rereading and bottom is reading

[Anonymous No.8307423]

>>8307410
Good luck with PL. it's a bit dry

[Anonymous No.8307449]

>>8307220
You should scan it. pls

[Anonymous No.8307524]

>>8307410
I want to believe that's the same Dolan as the nuclear physics books from the shelf threads.

[Anonymous No.8307525]

>>8307449

It isn't that expensive, and shipping books from Japan isn't all that bad (nothing compared to figurines).

Still, scans are free and free is p good. I wouldn't mind if that anon also scanned it for us.

[Anonymous No.8307550]

>>8306930
>the more obscure the more patrician!

[Anonymous No.8307793]

>>8306822

[Anonymous No.8307842]

[Anonymous No.8307844]

>>8307842
assuming that's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, I love that book good buy

[Anonymous No.8307918]

>>8307423
>Paradise Lost
>Dry

nice bait, you made me reply. Here's your (you)

[Anonymous No.8307980]

>>8307842
I've never seen a copy of Stoner with that title. Weird. Did they just change it for the NYRB reprint?

[Anonymous No.8307992]

>>8307980
You

[Anonymous No.8308049]

>>8307992
Didn't notice the missing second s in Professor, so didn't realize it's in another language. Still seems weird that they'd translate the title that way.

[Anonymous No.8308051]

>>8308049
f, not s. Maybe the picture is fitting after all.

[Anonymous No.8308146]

1/2

[Anonymous No.8308148]

>>8308146
2/2

[Anonymous No.8308153]

Redpill me on Vollman. What's his deal? I've seen Europe Central recommended a lot.

[Anonymous No.8308229]

[Anonymous No.8308245]

>>8308146
Those are some old-looking Penguins

[Anonymous No.8308617]

>>8308245
Yeah, got them from a second hand book shop

[Anonymous No.8308627]

>>8308617

You don't say.

[Anonymous No.8308634]

>>8308617

How much per book?

I should try second hand book shops.

[Anonymous No.8308643]

>>8306822
Throw all that other shit out and get more DeLillo

[Anonymous No.8308649]

>>8307842
yo polebro, whats a good polish publisher? i mean for polish books in polish?

[Anonymous No.8308665]

>>8308643
delilo was the book I was hyped on least.

[Anonymous No.8308670]

>>8306822
>le contemporary american fiction meme
you're not patrician dude, sorry

[Anonymous No.8308675]

Entry level fag here

Slow Learner
Crying Lot of 49
Mason & Dixon
Inherent Vice
Gravity's Rainbow
Pale King
Consider the Lobster
The Aeneid
Ulysses
Oblivion: Stories (DFW)
War and Peace
Swann's Way
Siddhartha

[Anonymous No.8308709]

Fun fact: if you have to announce yourself as patrician you are not patrician.

[Anonymous No.8308732]

>>8308634
differeing prices
the penguins were 3-5
wordsworth - 5
Vintage -10
Others were 10 - 20
keep in mind i live in Aus

[Anonymous No.8308738]

>>8308732
damn you got screwed. OP here. all of mine were $1 from the dollar bin at bmv. except the hardcover. that was 7$

[Anonymous No.8308762]

>>8308675
dont read any of those yet. read of mice and men, the old man and the sea, the outsider, siddhartha yes, and notes from underground first. who do you think you are masquerading as someone with the breadth of knowledge to tackle those constantly namedropped authors? start small, though your ambition is fiery and is telling you not to. you will draw deeper insights into something like ulysses, for example, if you have knowledge of irish history, the catholic church, dubliners, portait of the artist as a young man, and the various works joyce alludes to all the time. is a basic knowledge of the western canon necessary to read a work like ulysses? no. however, it helps you decipher what joyce was getting to. allusions are not to prove to what extent the author is well-read, but to enforce an idea or thesis by the author by use of a different, often wellknown story. describing a character as like hamlet, or as an achilles, or as a cain or abel has real background, your allusion has added the context and power of a complete other story unto it. if you're an entry level fag, don't start in the canopy lurk around the ferns awhile.

to cut it short, you're incredibly pretentious and you're reaching further than your hand can take you. read short, basic works, not monumentally influential tomes from high modernism, postmodernism, epic poems, etc etc. btw

[Anonymous No.8308827]

>>8308649
Officyna, Wydawnictwo W.A.B., ha!art, Universitas, Noir sur Blanc, Albatros, Zeszyty Literackie, PIW, Lokator Wydawnictwo, słowo/obraz terytoria. I hope you will find this helpful.

[Anonymous No.8309489]

>patrician
>he doesn't even have the masonic bible

[Anonymous No.8309502]

Well I'm never going to the 2nd store by car again.

>As many books as you want for 10 eurobucks.

[Anonymous No.8309513]

>>8309489
Ist Spengler gut?

[Anonymous No.8309519]

>>8309489
shit taste

[Anonymous No.8309819]

>>8307980
it's probably a translation, but i'm wondering if farina is also translated into polish

[Anonymous No.8309836]

>>8308665
Then you're a fuckhead

[Anonymous No.8309867]

>>8309502
why is your animal farm so thick? Is that the VHS of the animated film?

[Anonymous No.8309874]

>>8309867

It comes with a slice of bacon.

[Anonymous No.8309877]

>>8309502
>As many books as you want for 10 eurobucks.

wtf

Where is this place?

[Anonymous No.8309898]

>>8307410

I have that copy of Goethe. It's a great.

Too lazy to start with Part 2 though, it's much thicker.

[Anonymous No.8309905]

Went into Waterstones today.

They have a new and well-stocked shelf on the bottom floor now, devoted EXCLUSIVELY to new and aesthetic copies of somewhat timeless books.

I will take some photos tomorrow. Was kinda tempted, kinda disgusted desu.

[Anonymous No.8309919]

>>8309502
what's with this ultra pro photo.

[Anonymous No.8309926]

>>8309502

>he made a little book tower

how cute

jk, u fucking retard

[Anonymous No.8310002]

>>8309489
>not a Catholic bible
>being this heretical

enjoy eternal damnation, Martin.

[Anonymous No.8310036]

>>8307423
nigga

[Anonymous No.8310061]

>>8308153
>redpill
Anyhoo. He's one of the few living authors where the genius/insane factor is actually relevant. The guy crossdresses to talk about crossdressing, and if I'm not mistaken he's done heroin just to be able to write about heroin. Insurmountable, but to be approached with apprehension.
Europe Central sort of disappointed me, 2bh. But maybe that was just the low-level fetishized-underground hype that surrounded it. My local bookshop had a midnight opening for it, and I swear I haven't seen human beings like that ever since again.

Anyway that has little to do with the novel, or Vollmann's word at large. Try to read etc etc Angels, and see whether you like it. Europe Central was massive, humongous in scope. It's hard to say just how much without resorting to /lit/ memes. Try imagining the drama of Gravity's Rainbow with the humour of IJ, with the same autistic-yet-genius attention to detail of Mann's Magic Mountain. All that, and in a broader scope than anything I'd ever read before.

But here's the thing: I don't know if I should recommend it. It's certainly not for everyone. Certainly not for redpill-memers on /lit/.

tl;dr: Maybe?

[Anonymous No.8310068]

>>8309502
dang, anon. that's some tower for 10 €poors.

[Anonymous No.8310074]

>>8309877
Amsterdam, the cashier couldn't be arsed to scan it all. So went: 10 for the lot?
Books are normally 50 cents to a whole euro at this place.

>>8309919
I may own a decent camera with okay glass.

[Anonymous No.8310122]

>>8310074
what you shoot with. what lense?

[Anonymous No.8310124]

How mad are you right now?

[Anonymous No.8310158]

>>8310124
im livid

[Anonymous No.8310203]

>>8310158
figured

[Anonymous No.8310214]

>>8310124
>>8310158
>getting mad at what other people read

[Jack No.8310958]

I got a job (and then proceeded to quit 4 months in) and now I got some cash left over from that while im living with my uncle.
I've been buying some books recently.
1/2

[Jack No.8310969]

2/2
>>8306930
nice!
>>8307410
paradise lost is my shit, its packed away currently with the other 200 something books.
>>8307842
stoner is boring as fuck at first but then you get immersed into it
>tfw no katherine driscoll in my life atm
>>8308146
>>8308148
good choices!
>>8308229
tell me how that welsh book is. I've been meaning to read Trainspotting.
>>8309489
pretty books
>>8309502
you single? i'll make sweet love to you if that's your taste.

[Anonymous No.8310973]

>>8310969
what a waste of money

[Anonymous No.8310974]

>>8310958

>Poetry.
>Pretending you enjoy reading poetry.

You're not fooling anyone, pal.

[Jack No.8310981]

>>8310973
how so, anon?
>>8310974
i've been caught!

t. man baby

[Anonymous No.8311069]

>>8307423

[Anonymous No.8311231]

>>8310122
Autoreflex Revuenon 50 1.4, tons of CA and swirly bokeh

>>8310969
Be gentle please.

[Anonymous No.8311782]

>>8309502
What I'm interested in here is the lighting, do you have a photo studio in your living room or something?

[Anonymous No.8311789]

>>8310969
>Stoner is boring as fuck

Williams prose captivated me within the very first chapter

[Anonymous No.8311804]

>>8311069
oi
enough

[Jack No.8312302]

>>8311789
its great book the further you get into it but idk i was honestly bored to death, it nearly prevented me to stop reading the book.
I'm glad I did.
>>8311231
I will bb.

[Anonymous No.8312468]

>>8311782
My life is filled with fancy Italian design light fixtures. (Think Artemide Tizio, Tolomeo, etc...)

Flexible arms and high output car halogen makes so they can double as studio lighting in an instant.

[Anonymous No.8312573]

>>8308762
Shut up faggot

[Anonymous No.8312748]

Got an old copy of the Odyssey for free from the local barber shop.

Rad cover,not too sure about the translation.
It seems to be a reprint of a translation from 1947.

[Anonymous No.8312792]

>>8310074
>Amsterdam
Shit man what's it called?

[Anonymous No.8312797]

>>8306930
>čapek

Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.8313029]

>>8309867
>ANIMAL FARM | 1984

[Anonymous No.8313067]

>>8309502
Are you the guy who stacks books on the floor? Whose shelf picture features some nice design books and a book which cover features a naked woman on top of a pile?

[Anonymous No.8313232]

bookstore near me was closing down and everything's 75% off (both new & used items); managed to get these all for $23 (had to wait in line an hour, though)

especially looking forward to tristram shandy

[Anonymous No.8313241]

>>8313232
how many qt 3.14 you tried to impress in the line?

[Anonymous No.8313251]

>>8313241
it was mostly just highschoolers and middle aged moms buying YA/romance paperbacks

[Anonymous No.8313405]

>>8313067
Yes, good memory.
The sleazy coffee table book with the naked woman is Shot By Kern, excellent work.

The floor stacking is due to an obvious lack of shelve space.

[Anonymous No.8313423]

>>8307360
>Gott ist todt.
Looks like the author couldn't decide whether or not God was 'dead' or 'death'. I like the latter idea. Death to the world, domain of Satan!

[Anonymous No.8313480]

this week's arrivals. some of the titles weren't readable so I wrote them all in

[Anonymous No.8313533]

>>8313251
Not an answer to his question. Still, nice stack.

[Anonymous No.8313567]

>>8312748
WE

[Anonymous No.8313594]

Sorry not sorry

[Anonymous No.8313596]

>>8313480
>heavy breathing
Where do you buy your books.

[Anonymous No.8313616]

>>8306822
>>8306930
>>8309502
do you people all coordinate to buy 1 good book each and then 5/6 shitty memes this board perpetuates?

>>8307410
you most of all god damn you could be so much more but you buy in to Pinecone.

[Anonymous No.8313619]

>>8313596
abebooks.com

[Anonymous No.8313739]

>>8313480
cool

[Anonymous No.8313741]

>>8313594
>best dfw novel
> second best pynchon novel

why apologize?

[Anonymous No.8313840]

>>8313741
What do you think the first best is?

[Anonymous No.8313907]

>>8309877
Not that anon, but I know a few places in town that have sales with descending prices, the books will be from different antiquaries and will go from ~15 down to less than a dollar each, know or popular books obviously go away faster but you can still make real finds when they're at the end of the sale, especially if you're not a pleb
I can't imagine you won't find similar stuff as long as you live in a major city and look around

Pic related, ~15$ total a little more than halfway into the sale

[Anonymous No.8314653]

>>8313619
My brief perusal doesn't show me how you wound up with that beautiful stack but I will look in to it.

[Anonymous No.8315335]

>>8313567
I don't understand.

[Anonymous No.8315338]

>24/07/2016
>My last book haul has yet to be surpassed

[Anonymous No.8316090]

>>8310969
I'm not OP in the pic, but Trainspotting is fantastic it's better than the film (which is still great) I promise you. It's a little hard to get into at first because the Scottish dialect, but it gets way easier and is actually fun to read.

[Anonymous No.8316103]

>>8310973
he probably barely spent money and still has the words.

[Anonymous No.8316111]

>>8313232
damn, nice steal. i need to find a place like that.

[Anonymous No.8316113]

>>8314653
use the advanced search

[Anonymous No.8316115]

>>8315338
Wow buddy, only eight translations and ONE book in it's original language!

What a patrician you are!

[Anonymous No.8316164]

>>8316115

>translations
>bad

[Anonymous No.8316178]

1/2

[Anonymous No.8316184]

2/2

[Anonymous No.8316241]

>>8316184
>mood therapy

[Anonymous No.8316319]

>>8309489
Did you read the Spengler book? I have it and the index alone is intimidating. Also I'm wondering how 'relevant' it is today

[Anonymous No.8316859]

New acquisitions today. Was at an antique market looking for furniture and one stall had some books. They gave me good prices on all of them. The text block of the Scott is great but the binding's seen better days. Still, the hinges are good, and a little alcohol took care of the little bit of mildew that was on it.

[Anonymous No.8316903]

>>8306822
>Tfw literally shop at value village.
>Tfw most of it is worn as hell
>Tfw they're all different editions.

Some good finds though.
>Hard cover copy of Moby Dick
>Worn leatherback of the Decameron
>Collected Words of Jonathan Swift
>Short stories of Turgenev
>As I lay Dying - Faulkner
>Dubious War - Steinback

There are actually some great collected works in 2nd hand places sometimes. Found the 3-4 hardback novels of DH Lawrence, collected works of Twain, collected Shakespeare, etc.

Old people die, then I guess their pleb children sell it all off in mint condition.

[Anonymous No.8317137]

one time I thought I got a great deal on a Swift volume only to find out it was a bowdlerized piece of shit

[Anonymous No.8317142]

>>8317137
meant to reply to >>8316903

[Anonymous No.8317233]

Recent pickup, inb4 fedora

[Anonymous No.8317262]

>>8317233

can't you just you know read real scientists? you should be less worried about your fedora being on so tight and more about how awful tastes in /lit/ and /sci/ you have. have fun being a millennium baby.

[Anonymous No.8317340]

>>8317262
what would you recc from real scientists?

[Anonymous No.8317364]

>>8317340

my dick

[Anonymous No.8317370]

>>8317340

people who you actually wrote for the sake of science and not pop atheism or le popular science quote man.

[Anonymous No.8317401]

>>8317340
peer-reviewed articles

[Anonymous No.8317555]

>>8317340
penrose
a textbook

[Anonymous No.8317997]

>>8317233
can't you just you know read real theologians? you should be less worried about your fedora being on so tight and more about how awful tastes in /lit/ and /religion/ you have. have fun being a millennium baby.

[Anonymous No.8318014]

>>8306930

>Tolstaya

[Anonymous No.8318018]

>>8316178
are those ones with the green stickies the ones you've blasted through once, blasted a load on then rated on goodrates

[Anonymous No.8318063]

>>8316859
there's nothing I enjoy more than seeing a weak front hinge on the first volume of a book, and all pristine after that

[Anonymous No.8318226]

>>8316319
Nah, I just picked some books (the paperbacks) up off of Amazon because I'm switching banks and wanted to blow my credit card rewards points. My granddad just died and we're going through his massive hoard of shit. He had thousands upon thousands of books. Most of the stuff he kept close to him towards the end was conservative easy reading pop-lit (Bill O'Reilly books, ect.) but in the basement he had some truly dank shit and the rest of my family are philistines who read shitty pulp for the most part so I get my pick of the litter.

I have some of the choice selections stowed deeper in my shelf but this complete Emerson and a beautifully illustrated Quixote from 1941 alongside an illustrated book of the Grimm fairy tales are probably the choice selections.

Spengler's next on my list after BNW. I just finished my first full reading of Nietzsche (concurrent with a rereading of a few platonic dialogues I felt I ought to revisit) and need something a little more casual in my life atm.

[Anonymous No.8318238]

>>8318014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1WCJBEbBTw

[Anonymous No.8318318]

>>8318226
wow that picture is ass, i pulled a few off the front. He also had these noice leatherbound books with the complete works of most of the founding fathers alongside the federalist papers and other pertinent revolutionary era lit but those are buried in the second row for now.

I like this poetry book because it was clear it was something he used in elementary school because he scribbled all over the opening pages and wrote silly things and dirty words in the margins. His spelling was fucking abysmal but his handwriting was always good.

[Anonymous No.8318374]

[Anonymous No.8318382]

>>8318374
Those are big books

[Anonymous No.8318393]

>>8317997
what theologians would you recc?

[Anonymous No.8318409]

>>8318393
You should try
Tertullian
Augustine
Anselm of Canterbury
Aquinas
Julian of Norwitch

[Anonymous No.8318476]

>>8318409
what about origen? and is the oxford anselm good?

[Anonymous No.8318497]

>>8318476
That's the copy i've got that's p swell

Origen is worth a read but he's pretty much out of line with established official doctrine like Justin, Arius, Athanascius, etc. origen is all kinds of neoplatonist

[Anonymous No.8318508]

desu

[Anonymous No.8318517]

Here's a pair of books I bought today. Please don't ask me about the mini Gundam.

[Anonymous No.8318521]

>>8318517

the gundams fine, the books are cringe.

[Anonymous No.8318609]

lol

[Anonymous No.8318721]

>>8318517
You are a twat.
Why did you put the fucking figure there in the first place if you don't want to anwser questions about it?

[Anonymous No.8318965]

>>8318382
for you

[Anonymous No.8319270]

>>8318393
I'm just busting your balls mate

I think many poets, but especially Dante, have made real contributions to our understanding of Christianity

[Anonymous No.8319646]

>>8307410
the "I just learned that literature is a thing" starter pack

[Anonymous No.8319941]

>>8319646
just catching up on classics i've never gotten around to

i'm taking a whole course on paradise lost this semester so i want to have read it at least once by fall

[Anonymous No.8320038]

>>8308146
the cringe edition of Stoner

[Anonymous No.8320042]

>>8318609
>Henry
This triggers me

[Anonymous No.8320180]

>>8319941
you should also check out C. S. Lewis's Preface to Paradise Lost, it's a quick and enjoyable read which will cover some of what your professor may neglect to tell you

that is, if your professor ends up being anything like mine

[Anonymous No.8320411]

Just came in the mail.
I expected a lot worse quality.

[Anonymous No.8320415]

>>8320180
thanks, I'll make sure to check that out

[Anonymous No.8320630]

>>8320411
i got that ugly cocksucker in the mail as well

[Anonymous No.8320716]

>>8309502
The Book Exchange?

[Anonymous No.8320774]

>>8306822
these came in the post this morning. I wasn't expecting them because I was drunk when I ordered them and forgot.

[Anonymous No.8320876]

I'm bad with money

[Anonymous No.8320900]

fug I accidentally bought sound of waves again

[Anonymous No.8320913]

>>8320876
good choices, unlike many in this thread

that said, I don't see how it could have been expensive to buy a bunch of paperbacks unless you were stupid enough to buy them new

[Anonymous No.8320951]

>>8307107
I laughed a lot more than that image deserved.

[Anonymous No.8320976]

>>8317340
I would recommend textbooks. Figure out what level you're at, then start there. Look up a syllabus for a class at a good school and see what book they are using.

[Anonymous No.8321013]

>>8320976
reading textbooks is a great way to gloss over the fucked up history of science

every science-worshiping stemlord reads textbooks and has no idea that men of science were ever allied to anything worse than the progress of liberty, reason and equality

[Anonymous No.8321020]

>>8320900
>Kringe in 'n bos
Lekker, my maatjie

[Anonymous No.8321038]

>>8321020
ek is Belgiese maar ek wil Afrikaans leer want dit's een baie interessante taal

[Anonymous No.8321056]

>>8320876
>Seneca

Twinsies! XD

been reading this all week, then I heard about Epicurinism and some of it appeals to me, so I was thinking of buying the Art of happiness.

>paint comes off when i touch it

[Anonymous No.8321064]

>>8321056
fuck me it took me 10m to get that posted.

>airdroid wouldnt let me sign in
>pic wouldnt upload
>pic too big
>captcha not filled due to being too long
>redirected to a site to tell me im no longer banned(seriously?)

[Anonymous No.8321914]

>>8315338
the two bottom left looked like Schopenhauer trading cards from the thumbnail

[Anonymous No.8322056]

>>8310958
I really like the Longfellow poem with the tide rising and falling. I've for quite some time desired to read more Longfellow. Recommend any poems in particular?

[Anonymous No.8322234]

Reading for the rest of the summer. Yay—

[Anonymous No.8322243]

>>8322234
i've never read spy fiction but i figure in theory i should like it

i watched the spy who came in from the cold movie though and it was probably the most boringest thing ever. it put my dad to sleep twice. this is coming from someone who loves classically boring movies like costume dramas and bela-tarr-slow art films.
i wonder if i would like the book or if spy fiction just isn't for me.

[Anonymous No.8322281]

>>8322243
Yeah I'm excited to whip through that one actually not only for its longtime universal acclaim but also for the fact that I've been sleuthing through the history of espionage and'd like to compare what I know of the facts to the fiction.

Reading the Tractatus rn—nowhere near as difficult as its reputation makes it out to be, in the sense that it strives to do the exact opposite of what most notoriously difficult philosophomoric works tend to do: it clarifies rather than obfuscates, which is dope, who's isn't to say it's narcotics, which is to say it is highly satisfactory on many levels, including hormonally.

[Anonymous No.8322288]

[Anonymous No.8322389]

>>8320042
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

got it for a buck

[Anonymous No.8322489]

>>8322288
>wordsworth

[Anonymous No.8322548]

>>8320913
It was like 77 for all those which isn't too bad, especially the Stevens collection which was only 10

>>8321056
I'm hoping to read that one soon too.

[Anonymous No.8322744]

>>8322288
>wordsworth

[Anonymous No.8322998]

Brushing up on my gay and/or nazi literature
dB^){-{|8

[Anonymous No.8323100]

>>8316903
Yeah o got a massive haul from a value village here, something like 20 near mint condition books for like $40

[Anonymous No.8323122]

>>8322288
>>8322489
>>8322744

Autistic fag shows his "lit" shopping
Meme book about politics
Manga
The Great Gatsby
Animal Corssing game

/lit/ response
"Wordsworth edition ugh"

I love/hate you guys

[Anonymous No.8323144]

This is my second book on Rome. Will finally get my hands of Gibbon after I'm finished with this.

[Anonymous No.8323221]

>>8318382
for you

[Anonymous No.8323270]

>>8323122
>the prince
>meme book about politics

[Anonymous No.8323289]

>>8323221
If I read those books will I die?
It would be extremely tiresome
They are big books
For you

[Anonymous No.8323515]

>>8310958
>>8316859
>two Longfellows in the same thread
Didn't think he was that popular

[Anonymous No.8323581]

>>8323289
what did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.8324122]

Just dumped all my free cash. Gotta love college towns.

[Anonymous No.8324792]

Warning: File size too big (4.1 MiB / 4.0 MiB)

[Anonymous No.8324809]

>>8324792
that short story collection looks pretty dope desu

[Anonymous No.8324845]

>>8324122
just copped anatomy of melancholy too

i really like his writing style. even when he's going on for a large number of pages about why he's writing this book and why he chose the name democritus jr, i just zip thru the book really enjoying the prose.

how u likin it?

[Anonymous No.8324846]

>>8306822
>William T. Vollman
>patrician
You made me kek a little!

>But Vollmann’s most famous for writing about whores. Drug-addicted ones. This isn’t easy to do if you associate with a wholesome group of writers like the McSweeneyites, unless you categorically deny you’ve ever hired a prostitute for fun. I recall reading one of those Paris Review “Art of Fiction” thingies where Vollmann even claimed that he’d pretend to jerk off while interviewing his whores so they didn’t get suspicious. He admitted to fucking them once or twice, of course, but that was all a research necessity. And I confess – nothing makes me shudder more than his Travis-Bickle-like insistence that he’s not just another john, how he’s a sensitive guy who understands these women better than any of their other clients and really prefers getting them to pose for watercolours. Just to show his McSweeneyite audience how sensitive he is, Vollmann describes all his encounters with whores in the most flowery, studiously un-masculine prose you can imagine. It’s a wonder Oprah hasn’t picked him for her Book Club yet, since he has exactly the sort of cheaply paradoxical character her fans crave: “Oh, that sad, sad man. It really touches me that a person so ugly on the outside can be so beautiful on the inside. I never thought I’d be this moved by a book about prostitutes in the Tenderloin but my friend Darcy said: ‘You have to read this! It’ll blow you away!’ So I did and, lemme tell you, it’s not sleazy at all. I don’t think there’s even anywhere in the novel where this guy gets it up if you gals know what I mean, and hallelujah to that! It’s not that kind of story. It’s really about finding beauty and meaning in the most unlikely places and how even the toughest lady on the street has an inner 10-year-old that just wants to be comforted. And I’m still saving the biggest miracle: it was written by a man so hideous he doesn’t even shave his warts!”

[Anonymous No.8324847]

>>8320411
>>8320630

follow my advice and put a plastic cover on it like pic related. These editions are great but the blue painting of the covers just disintegrates in your hands after a while, particularly with long books like Ulysses since you manipulate them for longer time. Now I just wrap every Wordsworth book I get, and most book I care about in general. It's become a sort of a ritual for new books.

[Anonymous No.8324859]

>>8324847
weird question, but where did you get your plastic sheets?

i usually just wrap it in plain cotton cloth for transit.

[Anonymous No.8324905]

>>8324859
the same place where you buy pencils, pens, wrapping paper, notebooks, rulers etc. Don't know the word for that. School supplies store or something.

[Anonymous No.8324914]

>>8324905
damn the people on this board are fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.8325014]

>>8324905
i've never seen clear plastic in bulk outside of polyvinyl chloride plastic wrap. are you using "clear pockets" to make your covers? they are the transparent binder pockets you use to hold reports.

sadly those are too small for a bunch of my paperbacks so i was hopeful you had an alternative.

[Anonymous No.8325154]

>>8324847
hell no i dont put diapers on books that's yucky

[Anonymous No.8325300]

>>8324847
Lol holy shit. Wrapping a Memesworth. Now I've seen everything.

[Anonymous No.8325321]

>>8324914
I'm sorry pal, it's just english is not my native language. I think I do pretty well considering that.

>>8325014
No, it comes in big sheets, I cut them with scissors to fit the book and paste it with a few strips of scotch tape. It's a crafty art but I'm getting better and better at it. I actually enjoy it

[Anonymous No.8325340]

>>8324122
>disposable income equalling four books
Either you're beyond destitute or you're paying too much for your books

[Anonymous No.8325350]

>>8325300
yo seriously wtf man. just read it. throw it away and buy another copy. leave on shelf.

[Anonymous No.8325366]

>>8325350
With that money I could by a DIFFERENT Wordsworth book. How much of a spoiled consummerist child are you

[Anonymous No.8325372]

>>8325340
five*
but my point remains

[Anonymous No.8325418]

>>8325340
>>8325372
College student in between jobs, and I admittedly probably paid a bit too much... however they were all books I've had my eye on for a while, and found them all in this nice mom and pop bookstore, so I figured it'd be worth it, ultimately.

[Anonymous No.8325431]

>>8324845
I read the first 10 pages or so online prior to buying it, and very much enjoyed it. Can't wait to dive in and explore the rest.

[Anonymous No.8325485]

>>8325321
thanks for the info, i don't see those sheets where i am. may i ask where you're from? i had an inkling english isn't your native language, ignore that rude anon.

>>8323144
vae victis! livy is a delight. you are a lucky soul to have the pleasure of enjoying gibbon for the first time too, it's a very colorful read. which was your first?

>>8320876
>>8322548
i've been meaning to read endo's silence (looks daunting in japanese though), let us know how it is. $77 is super reasonable, wish i got those prices here.

[Anonymous No.8326144]

>>8320976
>>8317555
>>8317370
It's always funny when you guys get called out on your hipster use and have no actual names to back up your bullshit claims that you're somehow a patrician who reads works that no one else has heard of

[Anonymous No.8326371]

>>8326144
I'm a physicist. I legit read textbooks and can't in good conscience recommend pop science without introducing extreme bias.

Penrose is a good in between. Road to Reality was written as a pop science book which "anyone could understand". It's a bullshit claim because he goes heavy into differential geometry and complex topology and it's baffling to lots of actual scientists, but it's still technically a popular treatment. The books I would recommend are textbooks because they are the closest to being faithful representations of physical reality.


Superseding all of this: sarcasm. Of course no one expects you to go read a textbook if you like science fiction. Penrose is my legitimate recommendation for "real scientists" without jumping straight to the prototypical Feynman, but thank you for your nonconstructive criticism.

[Anonymous No.8326758]

>>8324122
>>8324845
My eggnoggs.

Bought it recently, I'm at 250~ now, it's a really comforting read. Prose is fantastic, points delivered are interesting and the vast amount of things to get out of the book is impressive.

[Anonymous No.8326774]

>>8325418
Well I'm a perpetually jobless college student and the real savings are found in antiquaries, especially if you're looking for hardcore classics like Woolf and Kafka, and some places will have a lot of NYRB editions, too.
Though the most solid tip is looking around campus and the different departments because profs accumulate so many books that they have to purge their library from time to time, meaning each department will have a table with free shit like this.

[Anonymous No.8326819]

>>8307360
God is toasted

[Anonymous No.8326838]

>>8324847
This is a joke, right?????

[Anonymous No.8326905]

>>8326838
I really don't get all the bewilderment and mocking with this. It's a pretty neat way to take care of books. I'm that guy btw

[Anonymous No.8326909]

>>8323515
>Longfellows
I hope this is a name for people who enjoy his poems

like "ah, I see we are both longfellows" or "he and I have enjoyed each other's longfellowship ever since he first introduced me to The Song of Hiawatha"

[Anonymous No.8327080]

it's my birthday and these were my birthday presents

[Anonymous No.8327157]

>>8327080

Happy birthday

[Anonymous No.8327177]

>>8327157
thanks!

[Anonymous No.8327194]

>>8327080
Happy birthday anon, how old are you now?

[Anonymous No.8327205]

>>8315338
(you)

[Anonymous No.8327209]

>>8327080

Happy birthday.

Those books look lame as hell.

[Anonymous No.8327345]

>>8327080
happy birthday, f.am. marías is a GOAT. I haven't read that one tho.

[Anonymous No.8327761]

Love waking up to a delivered package

[Anonymous No.8328532]

>>8322998
Final haul.
Is anyone familiar with Sloterdijk? I'm not, and I've been put off by how much I hear psychoanalysis in connection with his name, but his anti-globalisation stuff seems interesting.
Am I about to read a Zizek 0.5, a Zizek 2.0, or something completely different?

[Anonymous No.8328541]

>>8327194
too old
>>8327345
thanks! it looks rad
>>8327209
also thanks but please don't insult my parents' taste so harshly

[Anonymous No.8329002]

>>8327080
happy birthday, I'm sorry you didn't get better gifts

[Anonymous No.8329034]

>>8306930
That whore Tatyana is an insult to the Tolstoy name (and so is her father).

[Anonymous No.8329041]

>>8327761
I love waking up to anyone's package.

[Anonymous No.8329053]

>>8323289
really makes you think

[Anonymous No.8329544]

[Anonymous No.8330172]

There’s really something quite awesome, magical, and maybe even Divine ‘bout the fortunate happenstance of acquiring—and thereafter reading—a Great Book; the essential nature of such can’t quite be nailed precisely down and represented by what we call Language (Wittgenstein’s idea that there ARE in fact some feelings/experiences that’re actually truly indescribable isn’t just some mystical Hocus Pocus, that’s for damned sure); BUT: the act of reading David Foster Wallace is the act of reading the inexpressible; when I first set my eyes upon The Jest, I could just intuitively sense his cynical wit, his saintly gaze emanating from those dry dry pages, and thus my mind’s transformation I felt; every tangent to my soul aligned; neurons fired; literal electric bolts shimmered forth, through and unto my body; “andbutso,” I heard his sensitive and compassionate and virile voice whisper, his staggering genius impressing unto my mind his own image (with glasses and bandana diaphanedly impressed); the vast and planet-smashing intellectuality captured in that empyrean phrase, the archetype of all insecurity come to bear upon thee with a celestial and godlike clarity; (& FYI: David hadn’t read ANYTHING by Pynchon by the time he wrote TBOTS, so don’t even begin to even try to say he’s some kind of copycat/hack/poseur); I may not be a religious or spiritual kind of guy (I think myself a freethinker with an atheistic bent), but David’s work is all the salvific content I could ever want for, thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.8330686]

>>8329544
this fucking sucks

delete this

[Anonymous No.8330809]

>>8328532

hrm i guess ill do it in english:

though some ( myself included ) consider him verbose and ardently in love with his wording, sloterdijk is a capable writer and philosopher. consider zeilen und tage, since i think you know about zorn und zeit; i never heard anybody compare him to zizek in style or thought, though they do seem to like each other, so maybe they'd consider it flattering.


pretty nice, meister, especially enzensberger

[Anonymous No.8331037]

>>8330809
Thank you for your thoughts, and I only made the comparison because they seem to share common interests in stuff like Heidegger, psychoanalysis, and the dangers/darker areas of globalisation and universal ethics, though I realise they approach the issues differently.
And I don't doubt that he's verbose, I can gather as much from the introduction, just like I'd say that Zizek occasionally comes off as excessively vulgar.

[Anonymous No.8331434]

Catch 22
Jurassic Park
A Very Short Introduction To The European Union

[Anonymous No.8331889]

>>8313232
most patric in thread. suck me

[Anonymous No.8331904]

>>8318609
most patric, suck me

[Anonymous No.8331912]

>>8322998
what's the publisher of those mann books?

[Anonymous No.8331924]

>>8330809
ever more patric, suck me

[Anonymous No.8331938]

>>8306822
What kind of a train dings?

[Anonymous No.8332030]

>>8331912
They're all Fischer Taschenbücher
Confer >>8328532

[Anonymous No.8332111]

>>8327080
I'm late but happy birthday anyways!

[Anonymous No.8332125]

>>8331938
the kind of train with a bell you fucking stupid ass faggot.

[Anonymous No.8332252]

Does anybody knows a page to buy cheap books that ship internationally for free?

[Anonymous No.8332283]

>>8306930
>memefka

[Anonymous No.8332380]

>>8330686
>Faust
>sucks
Your mom sucks my phallus.

[Anonymous No.8333132]

>>8332380
>paperback norton critical edition
lick my asshole

[Anonymous No.8333146]

>>8316859
>>8313480
these are the only posts with antiquarian books in this whole thread, and judging by the wall color it's the same guy. the rest of you are posting fucking penguin paperbacks and shit. lame ass thread to be honest

[Anonymous No.8333654]

>>8331904
and i still can't rotate a picture

[Anonymous No.8333840]

>>8313480
Nice touch with the writing

[Anonymous No.8333853]

Which one of these books should I read next? (still reading Infinite Meme)

[LEL No.8333892]

>>8324846
Vollmann will win the Nobel Prize.
Someone mark my words.

16121994


And you're a fag. Read him at least, cunt.

[Anonymous No.8334097]

>>8333853

>2016
>not starting with the greeks

jesus these are all meme-tier books; kys

also-- learn to flip your images before posting, pleb

[Anonymous No.8334101]

>>8333853
Start with Catch-22 of course

[Anonymous No.8334105]

>>8333853
no. this is what you do, anon.

burn the rand.

put ellis and DFW on the shelf and save them for last.

>toss a coin
heads- you read Fydor
tails - you read Remarque
edge - you read Heller

[Anonymous No.8334803]

Where do you guys usually buy your books?
Seems like many of you go to a used books store?

[Anonymous No.8334811]

>>8334803

Book Depository.

[Anonymous No.8334961]

>>8334803
Used books are the way to go, though some stores specialising in this will jew up the prices
Check the book bins at flea markets/in thrift shops (it'll always mostly be bestsellers, fantasy, and thrillers etc., but you can still find stuff worthwhile)
If you're a collegefag, see if they're putting out discontinued books from your campus library or from the libraries of professors for students to pick up somewhere
Look for private listings in the newspaper or whichever website people use for this kind, often people just want to get rid of their books, and occasionally you'll strike gold with like a widow whose husband was into literature

[Anonymous No.8335284]

I got a penguin modern classic book and it's paper quality is shit what a scam!

[Anonymous No.8335810]

>>8328532
I've only read this, because I found a Norwegian translation by chance at the library. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17268377-die-verachtung-der-massen

I wouldn't consider myself at all familiar. But there is a fair bit of psychoanalysis.

[Anonymous No.8335817]

>>8334803
Being that i'm not in the US. UK stores on Ebay tend to have the best prices for me. However I do find things on ebay from Australia and the US sometimes for cheap. I think this is mainly because of some excemptions in customs/shipping for books.

[Anonymous No.8335905]

>>8332125
>implying bells don't toll

[Anonymous No.8336370]

Just picked this up after getting a recommendation from my local record store owner, anyone read it? Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.8336939]

>>8334803
Just the bookstore nearest to me5

[Anonymous No.8336955]

choo choo

[Anonymous No.8336959]

>>8336955

I'm quite enjoying plays i'm reading moliere at the moment, but I do feel I miss out on probably 60% of the play itself in not being able to see them live.

Not pictured are racine, moliere, and eca de quieros

[Anonymous No.8336962]

>>8336370
That's one ugly fucking book.

It's also the final part of a trilogy so you need two more.

[Anonymous No.8336965]

>>8336962
Oops, it's actually the second. Still, you need the first.

[Anonymous No.8336970]

>>8336965
Yeah, I'll go pick that up tommorow. Ugly as in cover or is the actual book ugly. Because if its the cover you are referencing, I 100% agree.

[Anonymous No.8336982]

>>8313594
when was that V. printed?