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Recent purchases Anonymous Mon Sep 19 15:31:23 2016 No.8526597 [Reply] [Original]

Which books are you anxiously waiting to arrive/just got of the mail?

These just got here
>state of siege & the stranger
>the sun also rises
>lolita
>ulysses

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 15:34:39 2016 No.8526610 File: 1.74 MB, 3264x2448, birthday haul2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8526597 I got all these yesterday (top three as gifts, everything below from half price books).

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 15:35:43 2016 No.8526613 File: 1.18 MB, 2304x1296, book haul83.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8526610 and then I got these today.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 15:38:23 2016 No.8526625 >>8526597 Nothing really just Polybius The Rise and Fall of Rome along with Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. You got some awesome choices though OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 15:38:43 2016 No.8526626 File: 2.43 MB, 3840x2160, IMG_20160914_200015.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These >>8526597 I got half priced, pic related I got in a trade, gave 10 shitty books I had for it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 15:44:37 2016 No.8526634 >>8526610 >Labyrinths Myyyy nigga. I love that edition desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 15:54:43 2016 No.8526665 >>8526597 >>8526626 Are those from some Spanish fine press?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:05:02 2016 No.8526707 >>8526665 dont know what you mean by "fine press" but they are all portuguese (brazil) except for Dubliners, crime and punishment (both penguin classics) and notes from the underground that are from the US

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:07:42 2016 No.8526715 >>8526597 >reading translations when you can read the original in english why do people do this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:08:31 2016 No.8526719 File: 17 KB, 240x200, image_29.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw books have not arrived yet Why must I suffer?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:08:31 2016 No.8526720 >>8526610 I think I read Unica Zürn's name on some osbcure blog about obscure books (along with Mary Caponegro) before. Any good?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:12:44 2016 No.8526736 >>8526715 because english versions are not always available in my country, not for $2,00 a piece atleast

Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:18:38 2016 No.8526761
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>>8526720
I read it a few years back, I remember I loved it then, but not much specific (why I bought it, to read again). I've read The Trumpets of Jericho more recently and it's a lot more convoluted and plotless, but if you enjoy sometimes pretty and mostly grotesque images that aren't terribly connected, I would recommend it. Things like:

>The cows could make themselves small like a fist in order to creep back into the cheese made from their milk. It was a complicated process and they could do nothing about it.
>For the whole land is flooded with a large and powerful wave of the deepest melancholy, and wherever anyone goes or stands, they think here of violent death.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:22:20 2016 No.8526775 >>8526707 >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_press I was asking who published the leatherbounds. Not the English ones.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:35:10 2016 No.8526831 File: 374 KB, 1475x778, cccfhgmltc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Waiting for these to arrive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:40:28 2016 No.8526847 >>8526831 >Marxist pop-history Disgusting

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:44:59 2016 No.8526856 File: 37 KB, 640x480, Slavoj Žižek.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8526847

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:48:58 2016 No.8526864 File: 1.03 MB, 1978x2160, IMG_20160919_174806_123.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8526775 Oh, ok. But yes, these 3 are very old and from the same publisher, I dont know if they still so these leatherbounds, but they are nice

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:50:08 2016 No.8526866 File: 738 KB, 1970x2160, IMG_20160919_174746_655.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8526864

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:52:59 2016 No.8526870 >>8526736 Then wait until you can buy a copy from book depository. Reading Ulysses in a language other than English is just retarded. Can't you see that? Don't you understand it's truly untranslatable to a degree few works are?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:54:51 2016 No.8526873 File: 1.18 MB, 1456x2592, IMG_20160919_175403792.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 16:58:51 2016 No.8526879 >>8526873 Already started the Prose Edda?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 17:00:55 2016 No.8526885 >>8526879 Yeah, I just finished the Gylfaginning.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 17:02:35 2016 No.8526891 >>8526873 A Brief History of Ancient Greece is a good introduction to the subject. Used it at BA level.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 17:50:02 2016 No.8527047 >>8526626 Based brazillian?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 18:00:05 2016 No.8527069 >>8527047 Sim

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 18:00:28 2016 No.8527070 >>8526613 aesop...nice

Anonymous Mon Sep 19 18:01:45 2016 No.8527075
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>painting as model

>>8526610
Very diverse selection, I like. All good stuff too.
>>8526597
Boas compras, OP. Não sei se foi uma decisão sábia da tua parte comprar Ulisses traduzido, mas de qualquer forma nós dois temos leituras densas pela frente.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 18:15:17 2016 No.8527104 File: 220 KB, 1685x1500, Aesop Fables.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8527070 That's my third version of it so far. I've also got one from Penguin Classics and another children's one, illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 18:15:30 2016 No.8527105 >>8527075 Pois é...mas fazer o que... pelo menos Ulysses é um livro que tu pode ler várias vezes, e cada vez assimila mais o conteúdo, percebe as referências e tal, então talvez, no futuro, eu leia a versão original. GODSPEED brfags

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 20:21:11 2016 No.8527416 File: 1.81 MB, 848x1314, Screen Shot 2016-09-19 at 8.20.20 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] too lazy to take a picture

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 21:06:58 2016 No.8527537 >>8527416 Nice. Just finished The Iliad 5min ago, now gonna read Walden and Civil Disobedience, to take a brake fro greeks

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Anonymous Mon Sep 19 21:20:10 2016 No.8527587
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>>8527416
>>8527537
And I'd like to recommend: If you want to go a little deeper in Walden, read Emerson's 'Nature', it was Thoreau's friend and the text had huge influence on him. It can easily be found online (about 30 pages long I believe).

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 21:21:53 2016 No.8527592 File: 1.84 MB, 3827x2858, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 22:37:04 2016 No.8527878 >>8527069 Você já chegou a ler a obra do Valter Hugo Mãe? É um escritor português, me pareceu bem interessante

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 02:57:56 2016 No.8528574 File: 2.98 MB, 4128x2322, rp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bought these this past Sunday.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:07:31 2016 No.8528586 >>8526831 Have you already read Hegel, Marx/Engels, and Simmel?

Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:27:48 2016 No.8528611
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Received these two in the mail this week.

Very excited to start Ulysses but unfortunately that'll have to wait since I'm currently reading 7 books and I want to finish them and stop with that stupid behaviour

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:33:39 2016 No.8528616 >>8528611 Is Death of a Salesman good? Worth buying?

Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:40:42 2016 No.8528622

>>8528616
The books in the background are on my to-read list as well so I really can't tell you yet.

It's only a hundred pages long so I could read it in a couple hours and come back to you I guess but I gotta finish everything I've already started first otherwise I'm never gonna be able to build some sort of self-discipline

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:42:14 2016 No.8528624 File: 119 KB, 372x357, 1396726757482.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8526597 >reading a translation of Ulysses Fucking spics man

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:53:15 2016 No.8528633 >>8528622 You don't have to do that, mate. Thanks anyway.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 05:13:57 2016 No.8528750 I've got the 50th anniversary edition of LotR and the first Dirk Gently book on order.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 06:20:34 2016 No.8528815 >>8528586 >Hegel No. >Marx/Engels Yes. >Simmel No.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 06:28:40 2016 No.8528834 >>8526597 I honestly hope that Ulysses is the Houaiss translation, fampai

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 06:29:44 2016 No.8528835 File: 14 KB, 360x500, 1444410101920.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8528624 >implying I don't have both translated and portuguese >Implying I'm not buying pic related soon It's bilingual and commented though

Anonymous Tue Sep 20 06:36:36 2016 No.8528845
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>>8526775
Those are not leatherbounds, they just have a nice finishing, but are still sorta cheap. They were organized by Antonio Houaiss and published as a collection that could be bought at relatively low prices by subscribers of some newspaper, so a lot of houses have them but most people haven't read them.

You can also find them for cheap very easily, and most translations (save the Russian ones, which are mostly retranslations and always end up bad) are good and done by famous academics who felt that putting these books out for cheap would broaden the brazilian's horizons (protip: it didn't).

There's loads of these collections in Brazil, and if some BRHUE is wondering wich ones are best, I strongly recommend the one the Ulysses in OP is from and pic related (which is just the older collection reprinted, expanded and sort of corrected).

There are also the brown / red variants for brazilian classics which should honestly be the basis for brazilian essentials, that collection is dope.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 09:55:22 2016 No.8529326 disgusting fetishists

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 10:04:18 2016 No.8529348 File: 882 KB, 920x690, brazenheadbooks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8529326 It seems like a pretty innocent fetish, as far as fetishes go. Causes no harm to anyone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 13:52:44 2016 No.8530072 Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann The novel of the coming century by Mór Jókai Prosaic works of Seneca All this for 9 bucks. Did I do good?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 13:57:41 2016 No.8530090 >>8526610 I have that same copy of Argonautica, its really good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 13:57:52 2016 No.8530091 File: 427 KB, 2105x1365, IMG_20160920_184055.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann The novel of the coming century by Mór Jókai Prosaic works of Seneca All this for 9 bucks. Did I do good?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 14:05:06 2016 No.8530111 >>8527592 >Laurus How is it so far? I'm really really interested in getting it, but I would need to order it from bookdepository so I'd appreciate your thoughs on it

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 14:08:53 2016 No.8530124 >>8526736 you should not be reading ulysses of all works in translation. holy fuck. spend $2 on anything else and wait to read it in english.

Anonymous Tue Sep 20 14:46:48 2016 No.8530207

>>8530091
Just started on Joseph and his Brothers myself, planning to continue with the whole tetralogy
I'm not well versed in the bible myself, so the first few chapters were a bit tough because of all the namedropping and allusions, but once you get into the groove you realise Mann definitely had a way with words and a keen grasp of the Geistesmensch, like when, at the very beginning of the first book, he writes that man is a 'natürlich-lusthaftes und übernatürlich leidendes Dasein'.
Definitely a solid pick.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 14:50:05 2016 No.8530214 >>8530207 I picked it up,because it was mentioned to me multiple time the past few weeks. I took it as a sign.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 18:17:58 2016 No.8530817 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 18:53:50 2016 No.8530930 >>8527878 Não li não, mas irei pesquisar.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 18:56:34 2016 No.8530942 File: 332 KB, 499x618, 6FB1B070-3322-44F9-918D-D2520443A5ED.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Recently purchased a kindle and I actually got it for my birthday

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 18:57:09 2016 No.8530945 >buying books

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 19:11:24 2016 No.8530999 >>8530945 >using meme arrows

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 22:56:30 2016 No.8531841 File: 2.48 MB, 3264x2448, 1474426530246610141152.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fresh outta the amazon box

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 23:02:54 2016 No.8531876 >>8531841 ugh

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 23:06:41 2016 No.8531890 File: 126 KB, 1229x550, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8530111 Only 15 pages in but very interesting so far, so far it seems like it jumps around quite abit. Pic related is an excerpt of a section I really liked.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 05:00:12 2016 No.8532508 >>8531841 >people read this shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 10:21:45 2016 No.8533161 Special thanks to the Elfride Jelinek and anthropology anon

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 11:02:17 2016 No.8533289 File: 2.77 MB, 3264x2448, 20160921_152426.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8533161 Shit, forgot the pic

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 12:50:21 2016 No.8533785 File: 63 KB, 1024x576, 1474411660042.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8532508 Some useful things in these books

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 13:04:44 2016 No.8533826 >>8533785 The only use they have is extracting money from the gullible.

Anonymous Wed Sep 21 14:48:51 2016 No.8534325
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>>8526597
>knows how to read and write in english at a level that allows him to browse /li/
>reads translations of english original classics except of course for Camooo

Foda-se amigo, parece que não te estas a levar muito a serio ***cara**** heuheueheu

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