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recent purchases

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:01:25 2016 No.8423091 >>8423071 First for fountainhead love :)

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:02:55 2016 No.8423098 >>8423071 >Ayn Randy Fucking DROPPED, you autistic manbaby.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:05:54 2016 No.8423110 >Reading Ayn Rand LOOOOL tips Fuck off back to le reddit you edgy FAGtheist.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:10:11 2016 No.8423120 >>8423091 FuK U LOLbertarian. tips fedora The government is your friend.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:17:42 2016 No.8423140 damn you guys are fucking stupid. if anything out of my haul is le reddit it's unbroken lel.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:28:46 2016 No.8423167 I was going to participate in this thread, but then all these summerfags shat on OP for having an Ayn Rand book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:33:04 2016 No.8423184 >>8423167 summer friends BTFO

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:34:08 2016 No.8423189 >the Memehead

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:34:31 2016 No.8423191 File: 1.78 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20160820_140349.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not all cops but things I'm working on >>8423071 I think I'm supposed to make fun of you for Rand. It's like mandatory or something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:35:49 2016 No.8423198 >>8423191 >Dawkins

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:38:52 2016 No.8423210 File: 72 KB, 421x645, bukowski.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8423120 ANARCHU!!!NON NJTk..obj crux ex get f Aanatchy k men to say shit phone fuck cickf: yf

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:41:19 2016 No.8423227 >>8423191 makes fun of fountainhead. has Dawkins. weeeew

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:42:05 2016 No.8423231 >>8423191 did you get a free fedora with those books?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 18:42:17 2016 No.8423232 >>8423210 I can't ever find Bukowski at my used book stores. I read Ham on Rye and fell in love. Then I read Post Office. All I really want to read by him is Factotum.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 20:06:48 2016 No.8423529 >>8423227 Neither are particularly bad

Anonymous Sun Aug 21 21:44:41 2016 No.8423921
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All new (add Los Detectives Salvajes y 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault, that aren't here), except for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist of the Artist as a Young Man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 21:55:01 2016 No.8423966 >>8423071 I've never heard of that Joyce novel. Is it an unfinished work ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:00:30 2016 No.8423986 >>8423921 You picked the correct version of Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:01:33 2016 No.8423990 >>8423921 Oh, but read Joyce in chronological order, please. Do it for me, baby.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:04:45 2016 No.8424002 File: 1.79 MB, 2592x1936, IMG_1036.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:05:24 2016 No.8424004 >>8423210 Your bookstore should have a 'Beats' section, where Bukowski books aplenty can be found (I don't agree with his placement in that section either but what can ya do)

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:05:37 2016 No.8424006 >>8424002 those McCarthy editions make me so sad :(

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:10:01 2016 No.8424024 >>8423921 spppppaaaaaannnniiiifaaaaggggetttouuuuuutttttreeeeeee

Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:11:17 2016 No.8424027

>>8423986
Why? Others have said that the 1922 edition wasn't that good (or that's what I took from their comments), and recommended, among others, the Gabler edition. What could you tell me about it/them?

>>8423990
I'm doing as you say. You can sleep in peace at night.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:11:54 2016 No.8424030 >>8424006 why?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:12:27 2016 No.8424031 File: 82 KB, 398x350, joyce kek.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8424024

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:12:57 2016 No.8424034 >>8424030 The covers are just horrendous looking, tacky. if you don't care about the covers, don't bother replying please.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:16:00 2016 No.8424041 File: 145 KB, 286x307, dfw da fuck.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8424034 >caring about the covers

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:17:09 2016 No.8424045 File: 105 KB, 900x900, 1467921177984.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8424041

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:17:59 2016 No.8424046 >>8424034 I mean I don't really care about covers but I don't think they look horrible either.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:18:56 2016 No.8424050 >>8424046 Not gonna insult you about your taste then.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:19:27 2016 No.8424055 >>8424046 >but I don't think they look horrible either. Were you the guy saying Warhol was the greatest artist of all time in that Gaddis thread?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:23:38 2016 No.8424073 >>8423071 Forget about Ayn Rand, read Max Stirner so you don't fall under her spooks.

Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:27:53 2016 No.8424089

>>8424027
I don't know why people would say that the Oxford World's Classics edition is bad. It has typos, but they aren't very major and there's an errata in the back listing them all. I think it's nice to read a facsimile of the first edition, it feels more authentic than reading a later edition would. I also like the annotations in the appendix that explain the many obscure references throughout the book. I would understand much less of it if those weren't there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:39:51 2016 No.8424142 File: 2.28 MB, 3692x2928, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anti-purchase post: all the books I'm about to get rid of for various reasons

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:41:55 2016 No.8424148 >>8424142 you're getting rid of those Vonnegut books just because of those recent hate threads, aren't you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:42:46 2016 No.8424150 >>8424142 send me that hunger

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:45:05 2016 No.8424156 File: 203 KB, 368x396, dfw o god.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8424055

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:45:17 2016 No.8424157 >>8424142 >owning all that vonnegut to begin with lord, anon, i mean i was a fan, but jesus fucking christ, all his books are the same!

Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:45:59 2016 No.8424159

>>8424148
Nah, I've always liked Vonnegut, I just don't plan on reading these ones again and I wanted to get rid of a lot of my old paper backs. I've still got a few of his novels and about 4 of his short story collections.

Pretty much the same thing with the Salinger books too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 22:47:39 2016 No.8424164 >>8424157 I was pretty obssesed with him when I was a teenager..

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 23:55:11 2016 No.8424386 accidentally ordered and received 2 copies of Absalom! Absalom!

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 23:57:34 2016 No.8424393 >>8424386 Absalom! Absalom! Absalom! Absalom! Reminds me when I received four copies of Infinite Jest on accident from Amazon. I had them sitting in my bathroom as a gag for a bit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 23:58:57 2016 No.8424399 >>8424393 what did you do with the others? give them away? that's what i plan on doing with my extra copy

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 21 23:59:53 2016 No.8424402 >>8424399 One was for me, one was a gift to a friend who never read it, I gave another to my Grandpa who also never read and I keep the fourth for a re-read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:06:27 2016 No.8424420 File: 2.46 MB, 4160x2340, 0821162305.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Have read them from the bottom up, about a third of the way through Inherent Vice right now

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:06:52 2016 No.8424423 >>8424142 That is a nice collection man, shame that they're on the way out. I wouldn't mind owning a few of those.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:08:05 2016 No.8424424 >>8424420 That is a nice looking Things Fall Apart. I liked that story, read it this year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:09:03 2016 No.8424429 >>8424142 Send me your books man

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:16:47 2016 No.8424450 File: 2.36 MB, 4128x2322, 20160821_211518.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bought these today. How'd I do?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:17:41 2016 No.8424453 >>8424450 you did really bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:21:12 2016 No.8424459 >>8424450 this is a joke right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:22:43 2016 No.8424467 >>8424142 If I pay for shipping will you send me some? ;.;

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:24:24 2016 No.8424474 >>8424459 Not at all. >>8424453 What's so bad about my purchases?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:25:03 2016 No.8424476 >>8424474 I'm just shitting on you for asking for praise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:28:40 2016 No.8424485 >>8424476 Fair enough, this is 4chan after all. I forgot to thank the guy in the /sffg/ threads for recommending Hothouse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:30:14 2016 No.8424491 >>8423071 >Evelyn Waugh Nice. Read Brideshead Revisited this Summer and loved it. Want to try some of his other stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:30:17 2016 No.8424492 Kindle masterrace. Recent downloads has been Putas Asesinas by Bolaño, Funerales De La Mama Grande by Garcia Marquez and Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza (really good ecuadorian novel, i'd highly recommend it)

Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:40:00 2016 No.8424509

>>8424492
Used books are best books tho. Ebooks are cool because you can pirate them but I'm kind of a technophobe and don't trust much that's modern and electronic. Every time I try to use an ebook reader I end up accidentally wiping all the books off of it, because it will freeze and I'll try to restart it, and I'll lose all my books and have to put them back on the device... It also doesn't help that I'm a welfarefag with an ebook reader from 2011 and a computer from 2007 running XP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 00:44:59 2016 No.8424516 File: 2.12 MB, 4032x2268, 1471841014406-515532149.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I saw a thread earlier about how this was the best edition. I like the pictures.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 01:27:14 2016 No.8424645 File: 3.84 MB, 5312x2988, tmp_5006-20160821_222456969290507.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 01:30:21 2016 No.8424651 >>8424645 >Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of C&H Nice

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 01:40:57 2016 No.8424684 >>8424651 Crime and Hunishment

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 01:42:42 2016 No.8424691 >>8424684 lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 04:20:11 2016 No.8425139 File: 426 KB, 1915x1014, 1391047657627.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8424142

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 04:24:26 2016 No.8425142 >>8425139 I've got too many books, I gotta make room.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 06:54:06 2016 No.8425353 File: 104 KB, 1000x561, recent bok.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] -non-english peasant

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 07:27:48 2016 No.8425409 File: 194 KB, 1080x1080, 12407355_822806207863633_1081099963_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8424516 It's alright, a little expensive. And here's a better image, since you only posted the cover.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 07:33:56 2016 No.8425418 File: 3.12 MB, 4032x2268, 1471865598507-1604923942.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8425409 Bought mine used.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 07:36:00 2016 No.8425427 >>8425418 Nice, how much did you shell out? It's hard for me to buy anything outside of BookDepository, because I'm in Taiwan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 07:36:50 2016 No.8425428 >>8423167 well my friend looks like the only summerfriend was you

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>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 07:40:34 2016 No.8425432 File: 2.67 MB, 4032x2268, 14718658910061475979319.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8425427 $26

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>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 07:43:24 2016 No.8425437 >>8425432 USD? That's like $5 less than buying new.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 07:46:48 2016 No.8425443 File: 2.31 MB, 4032x2268, 1471866382118444598391.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8425437 I probably could have found a better price but I didn't want to drive around all day.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 08:03:54 2016 No.8425463 >>8425436 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is stupendous. Excellent purchases anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 09:57:41 2016 No.8425693 >>8423167 >book haul >not the worst threads on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 10:06:08 2016 No.8425713 >>8425693 They are, but only because of all these summerfags trying to defend Randfags.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 12:05:51 2016 No.8425989 >>8425457 >>8425460 Literally who?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 12:12:24 2016 No.8426014 >>8425460 Have you read Turtle Diary yet? I see it at my local bookstore and it's supposed to be good but I've yet to pull the trigger on it

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 12:24:57 2016 No.8426055 File: 12 KB, 240x240, rustle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8425430 >buttrustle!

Anonymous Mon Aug 22 13:58:21 2016 No.8426365
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I had to stack them up a little bit.
One stack=author

From left to right,top to bottom:

Small lexicon of philosophy
Walter Miller Jr.:A canticle for Leibowitz
Hemingway:A movable feast
Canterbury tales
Agatha Christie:The ABC murders(under that:A murder is announced)
Rejtő Jenő:Texas Bill the Daredevil(under that:Tiger blood)
Endless space(buddhist texts)
Joyce:A portrait of the artist as a young man
Karinthy:Magnetic death(?)(under that:The faces of the soul,This is how YOU write I-II)

All of this for 19 bucks.
What do you think?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 14:30:51 2016 No.8426455 >>8426365 A good haul, prepared to be bored to tears by A Movable Feast though. I love Hemingway but his style is terrible for non-dramatic nonfiction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 15:04:01 2016 No.8426563 >>8425353 Where did you find a copy of The Idiot that's that fucking big ? Are the pages half an inch thick ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 15:08:28 2016 No.8426578 >>8425460 That top left one may be the ugliest book cover I've seen in my life. That's even worse than Wordsworth Classics editions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 15:19:51 2016 No.8426612 >>8426365 What language is that? Hungarian?

Anonymous Mon Aug 22 15:28:42 2016 No.8426642

>>8426578

It might be cause it's by a "book cover designer" who does a lot of nyrb books, and the books from 1985 so she tried to make it somewhat modern while incorporating the title of the book and making it literal. I don't think its so bad but i get it.

>>8426014

Not yet, I liked the description i read though so I picked it up, nyrb is always nice to have a few lying around since the books don't usually go past 200-300 pages.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 15:31:20 2016 No.8426654 >>8426612 Yes

Anonymous Mon Aug 22 15:41:38 2016 No.8426677
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>>8426563
Finnish translations are big.

Really tho its just a small-yet-thick book, about 950 pages. I added the penguin classic Ulysses for scale.

The Ulysses translation at the bottom is a pretty new buy, too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 16:07:38 2016 No.8426780 >>8426365 God i fucking hate Rejtő Jenő so fucking much. Everything else is good though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 16:17:04 2016 No.8426811 >>8426677 now just wait for the retards saying >hurrr translated Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 17:16:42 2016 No.8426992 >>8426677 >translated joyce fucking idiot

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 17:52:24 2016 No.8427110 >>8426677 >just a small-yet-thick book, about 950 pages >fucking spurdos made the idiot three times longer what the fuck, finland ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 17:53:26 2016 No.8427115 >>8426992 you mean idiootti

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 18:48:39 2016 No.8427280 >>8426992 eh, it was done by a good translator who spent like 10 years on the project I'd be a pretentious liar if I said that checking out the translation won't probably expand my appreciation of the book, there's a shitload of footnotes, etc

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 19:19:45 2016 No.8427376 >>8426365 That Joyce cover is awesome. Too bad it's a translation.

Anonymous Mon Aug 22 19:25:51 2016 No.8427399

>>8427280
bro, bro come on, listen to this tip, will save you a lot of time here on /lit/:
>ignore every single one saying that you shouldn't read translated Joyce
1.if english isn't your main language you will get the most of this book in a single read by reading in a fluent language, not even english speakers get 30% of the book by reading it, most are from analisys and notes. You will lose a lot but you will gain a lot more by reading in a confortable language, re-read in english later.

2.people that say that probably read the following authors in english: Cervantes, Dante, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoievski, Gombrowicz, Kafka, Goethe, Baudelaire, Bolaño, Borges, Saramago, Kawabata, Mishima, Oe, Nietzche, Assis, Stendhal, Mann, Broch, Bulgakov, Tchekov, Rosa, Camões, Seneca, Buzzati, Calvino, Pessoa, Musil, Svevo, Pavese, Tanizaki, Canetti, Flaubert, Rilke, Moliere, Carpentier, Plato, Hesiod, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Ibsen, Lorca, Puchkin, Cortazar, Descartes, Schopenhauer, Gide, Fontane, Kundera, Sarte, Camus, Zola

enjoy your book

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 19:26:47 2016 No.8427402 >>8424142 >Throwing out decent books kys

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 20:49:01 2016 No.8427582 >>8426811 honestly this is one book that its not retarded to wonder why one would bother reading a translation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 22 20:50:28 2016 No.8427586 >>8427399 hm i forgot about that side of the argument. true.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 23 01:43:47 2016 No.8428425 >>8427376 I own a copy if the english version. They look nice placed next to eachother

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 23 01:54:57 2016 No.8428442 File: 22 KB, 400x354, Yinsen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8426654

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