Recent purchases thread? Just bought these three at Barnes and Noble. Prolly shoulda gotten them used but fuck it. Any order in which I should read them?

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Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:11:06 2016 No.8629357 [Reply] [Original]

Recent purchases thread?

Just bought these three at Barnes and Noble.

Prolly shoulda gotten them used but fuck it.

Any order in which I should read them?

Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:15:06 2016 No.8629367

>>8629357

in class, no pics.

- Ouevres de Sully Prudhomme (first edition from 189x-1900-ish, before he won Nobel. $5

- Golden Bough (1 volume) second edition hardcover. $1

- Flight to Arcturus. $1

- Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque, Poe. $1

- Complete Plays of Marlowe. $1

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:15:55 2016 No.8629368 >>8629367 Jesus - those are patrician picks, dude. Are you very well read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:16:38 2016 No.8629372 I've never seen a more emasculated Moby-Dick.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:18:44 2016 No.8629378 >>8629372 What an absolutely wretched and pretentious observation to make But o I am laffin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:21:10 2016 No.8629387 >>8629368 >Are you very well read? eh. We all try.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:24:31 2016 No.8629397 File: 945 KB, 2304x1296, book haul97.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8629357 These two, both of which I've read before, but wanted to read again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:27:08 2016 No.8629409 >>8629387 Still - I am surprised by your non-meme picks. My presumption is that you've cleared the memes and read what you want. Rare on this board.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:29:04 2016 No.8629417 >>8629367 Where'd you find Ouevres de Sully Prudhomme?

Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:37:29 2016 No.8629449

>>8629409

I've avoided some of the meme picks. Gravity's Rainbow didn't hold my attention. I love Ulysses but to me it's just another good novel. I've never touched IJ, after reading a few chapters I decided I wouldn't waste my time. I kinda dislike DeLillo and most of Pynchon, and their successors like Wallace and Baker I find completely uninteresting, so I don't waste my time.

I like dense and obscure poetry about philosophical ideas (Stevens, Prudhomme, Celan, Hill, those kinds), ancient poetry, fantasy in tradition w/ Lovecraft, mysticism even though I'm self aware and know it's all make believe crap -- still cool, metaphysical philosophy (some political phil), realist novels, etc. But reading isn't a large part of my life like it was a year ago when I was reading many books a day. I read what's interesting and appeals to my favored aesthetics and usually ignore most of the rest.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:38:31 2016 No.8629458 >>8629417 used/rare book warehouse for a chain in my geographical area. Second Story Books. Has stores in DC and MD and up the east coast.

Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:47:27 2016 No.8629506

>>8629357
HG Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau, Pocket Penguin edition.

Leo Tolstoy - The Cossacks + Hadji Murat, another Pocket Penguin book.

Dostoevsky - Crime And Punishment (David McDuff translated, black Penguin edition)

I've read Tolstoy's The Cossacks this weekend, the first thing I have read by him. I was pleasantly surprised by what a cozy read it is, with some beautiful asides about happiness, and the simpler way of Cossack life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:49:37 2016 No.8629516 Dick, Dying, and then da Shore

Anonymous Mon Oct 17 14:51:12 2016 No.8629525
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two paychecks from now I'm getting all of this. This pay check I'm saving up for a new portable audio player, the fiio x5 ii.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 15:22:59 2016 No.8629647 File: 1.31 MB, 3264x1840, 20161017_152103.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Also thinking of buying Patti Smith's memoir because it's only $2 on Amazon

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 15:27:37 2016 No.8629663 >>8629397 >he doesn't own a complete works of shakespeare Oh..

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 15:31:35 2016 No.8629670 >>8629663 That's not what that book is, anon. They're essays on Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 15:34:01 2016 No.8629679 >>8629525 strong list

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 23:06:11 2016 No.8631071 >>8629525 Go buy used search for very good condition save yourself some money and buy both at the same time.

Anonymous Mon Oct 17 23:15:42 2016 No.8631100

William March - Trial Balance: The Collected Stories 6$
Some vanity published book about the Baptist church in my town 1$
A couple two decade old issues of the university's literary journal 6$ total

the william march is the only good thing in that, unfortunately

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 23:30:14 2016 No.8631137 File: 1.88 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8629357 Nice Dick there, bro. Like, cool edition. >>8629506 Dude, once you go Tolstoy there's no turning back. The man can do no wrong. Here's my paycheck blown away.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 23:32:38 2016 No.8631145 File: 1.74 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8631137 I also got this nifty little book by Laszlo K., which you can flip around...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 23:34:19 2016 No.8631152 File: 1.95 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8631145 ... And read as another book! Super neato!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 17 23:37:07 2016 No.8631162 >>8631152 I know I'm a dork, I'm just a sucker for a good gimmick.

Anonymous Tue Oct 18 07:03:00 2016 No.8631833
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Picked up a bunch of older Reclams for free, checked inside and they were completely free from notes and other markings, wouldn't have bothered with them otherwise because new ones are so cheap anyway
In case they're blurry, the titles are
>Fontane: Irrungen und Wirrungen
>Eichendorf: Das Marmorbild - Schloß Dürande
>Heine: Aus den Memoiren des Herren von Schnabelewopski
>Wackenroder/Tieck: Herzensergießungen
>Tieck: Der blonde Eckbert
>Wedekind: Der Marquis von Keith
>Lenz: Der Hofmeister
The rest was free as well, thinking about getting into Faulkner, already have Absalom, Absalom! and figured reading some of his short stories first would be an alright introduction

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 07:53:28 2016 No.8631922 Complete Works by Racine : Pléiade Complete Works by Corneille : Pléiade Sterne's Sentimental Journey & Tristram : Penguin Gonna buy Richardson's Clarissa and Molière this week.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 08:02:15 2016 No.8631937 >>8631162 Check out ace doubles.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 08:17:44 2016 No.8631964 happiness is a chemical in the brain by lucia perillo its qt

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Anonymous Tue Oct 18 13:37:16 2016 No.8632772

>>8629357

Planning on picking up any of the following when I get paid this month:
Marketa Lazarova-Vladislav Vancura
War & War-Lazlo Kraznahorkai
The Ice Trilogy-Vladimir Sorokin
The World of Yesterday-Stefan Zweig
The Man Without Qualities-Robert Musil
The Melancholy of Resistance-Lazlo Kraznahorkai
Seibo There Below-Lazlo Kraznahorkai
The Broken Sword-Poul Anderson

Have they reprinted a lot of Kraznahorkai lately? Since last time I checked I remember War & War along with Melancholy being slightly out of print or going that way but now they have new editions it seems, also seems like they are trying to go after the Murakami fanbase by giving his works similar covers but I could be wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 13:40:13 2016 No.8632782 >>8632772 they reprinted everything already in english shortly after he won the man booked international prize

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 13:41:44 2016 No.8632786 >>8629409 What a faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 14:32:54 2016 No.8632929 File: 3.60 MB, 2828x2403, 20161018_143220.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8631152 Dude are you me?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 14:54:53 2016 No.8632993 >>8629525 Just a heads up, "The Tunnel" that gets talked about a lot on this board is by William Gass, not Sabato.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 14:56:41 2016 No.8633004 File: 2.56 MB, 2564x1836, Muh_Stack.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8629357 Which one should I read first?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 14:58:03 2016 No.8633010 >>8632993 I already have a copy. I got a great used deal on a like new copy for I think it was around 5 or 10 dollars.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 15:42:32 2016 No.8633155 >>8632929 >>8631152 I just started a reread of satantango, are k's other books as good?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 15:49:10 2016 No.8633185 >>8629367 where did you find them at such a price? pls gib

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:13:52 2016 No.8633476 File: 3.20 MB, 2286x2659, 20161015_010500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8633155 Not sure yet, this is my first of his and I haven't started it yet. I have seiobo as well and that book is really intriguing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:38:05 2016 No.8633573 >>8632929 Great minds and all that :)

Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:41:12 2016 No.8633588

>>8633155
I've only read satantango and I just finished The Last Wolf and have to say that Laszlo is in my top ten all time already. TLW is written entirely in one sentance and it's mind boggling. You know that feeling you get when you wake up early and sit down with a cup of coffee and become hyper aware of the silence? Reading him is like that, and I mean that in the best way possible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:46:33 2016 No.8633602 >>8632993 Who would make that mistake?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:48:57 2016 No.8633606 >>8633588 my dude

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:50:40 2016 No.8633610 You faggots and your consumerism are worse than the fucking retarded booktubers. Sage for not literature.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:53:58 2016 No.8633622 >>8631137 Hey nice Lichtenberg man, how did you hear about him, in Bolaño maybe?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 17:55:48 2016 No.8633631 >>8633155 I'm half way through War and War and its outrageously good, hopefully a new favourite for me

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 18:44:44 2016 No.8633777 File: 1.22 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_3767.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I also picked up Eisenstein's "Film Form" and "The Film Sense" yesterday.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 20:43:05 2016 No.8634176 >>8633155 I read The Last Wolf in one sitting. Finished in under an hour which shocked me cause I never marathon a read but the guys writing just hypnotises you, man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 20:46:56 2016 No.8634183 >>8633622 I found out about him after visiting my great-grandfather's grave, one of Lichtenberg's aphorisms was engraved on the gravestone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 21:04:15 2016 No.8634226 >>8634183 In case you're curious: "God makes the animals, man makes himself" After a lifetime of liquor and tobacco, he died at the age of 83. In a bar fight.

Anonymous Tue Oct 18 21:38:28 2016 No.8634332
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>>8629357
These just came today. My reading order will be Blood Meridian, Dubliners, Portrait, A Little Life.

A Little Life was actually an impulse buy since I happened to be browsing B&N when somebody made a funny thread about it a week or two ago. No clue what it's about yet besides le crying man face.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 21:47:00 2016 No.8634358 >>8631137 That meditations looks fucking stupid

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 23:10:10 2016 No.8634619 >>8633004 Stoner then TBK.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 18 23:14:23 2016 No.8634633 >>8634332 >le crying man face. he's trying not to laugh at dank memes

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 00:41:02 2016 No.8634954 File: 92 KB, 675x1200, CpkAvq1UEAAd8OH.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no replies

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 01:11:00 2016 No.8635035 >>8634954 It's the middle of the damn semester, I have zero monies at this time.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 09:44:15 2016 No.8635805 have a bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 13:50:37 2016 No.8636404 >>8635094 anyone know if cinema without reflection is any good?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 19:07:50 2016 No.8637273 Sorry, I only buy ebooks from the amazon store

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 20:41:01 2016 No.8637588 >>8634332 The cover is actually the photograph titled "Orgasmic Man". http://peterhujararchive.com/hanya-yanagiharas-a-little-life-uses-peter-hujars-orgasmic-man-on-cover/

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 22:04:02 2016 No.8637817 >>8635094 >Gass, DeWitt, Cardenas, Brebel Nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 22:14:47 2016 No.8637831 File: 124 KB, 1600x898, 8U6F5Ns.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] New bookstore by work. 3 bucks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 23:43:11 2016 No.8638079 File: 271 KB, 900x1200, dolan duck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got a stack of these, looking forward to reading them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 19 23:58:30 2016 No.8638114 File: 73 KB, 699x720, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I bought Sisyphus and Antichrist online, but the others I found at Goodwill, so I feel like it was a pretty good find, since Goodwill usually just has Tom Clancy shit

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 00:21:00 2016 No.8638166 >>8629357 You wasted your money on murakami, he's a tool. Very boring pseud.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 00:24:53 2016 No.8638173 File: 829 KB, 2688x1520, IMAG0093.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Came in today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 00:28:02 2016 No.8638181 File: 191 KB, 1000x1333, 20161020_140733.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] today i read nothing

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 06:05:49 2016 No.8638793 >>8638173 lol

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