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2013-05-30 04:22 3804292 Anonymous (P1010033.jpg 1600x1200 915kB)
What've you bought lately? i've already read the Baudelaire poems, Steppenwolf was a blind buy, curious to see why /lit/ like Hesse so much and it was free too. Recent purchases.

2 hours later 3804602 Anonymous
>>3804292 Those Penguin covers make made me gag.

2 hours later 3804628 Anonymous
I just ordered Brian Gyson's the Process, DFW's a supposedly fun thing (essays) and pre-ordered tao lin's Tai Pei I'm not proud.

2 hours later 3804637 Anonymous
>>3804602 that capote one is pretty good though the others are just meh

2 hours later 3804654 Anonymous (in_cold_blood-capote_truman-21160918-frnt[1].jpg 484x720 19kB)
>>3804637 >that capote one is pretty good though wtf. it's absolutely awful. where do they even find such terrible designers?

3 hours later 3804734 Anonymous
>>3804628 I liked DFW's supposedly fun thing. Need to read the Lobster one.

4 hours later 3804758 Anonymous
>>3804654 I hate those overly sterile covers. Books I've bought recently: Frederick Douglass's memoirs Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Go Tell It on the Mountain

4 hours later 3804769 Anonymous
Local thrift store was giving a bunch of shit to goodwill so I grabbed anything that looked decent. Man and His Symbols - Carl G Jung Lust for Life - Irving Stone Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Mythology - Edith Hamilton The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone Eight Great Tragedies - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Yeats, O'Neill Watership Down - Richard Adams A Midsummer Night's Dream - DFW The Red Pony - Steinbeck The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane Time Must Have A Stop - Aldous Huxley Hard Times - Charles Dickens The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

4 hours later 3804771 Anonymous
Bring up the Bodies The Trial Melmoth the Wanderer

4 hours later 3804778 Anonymous
Other Voices, Other Rooms is Capote's best work. Either that, or Breakfast at Tiffany's. I'm not really a fan of In Cold Blood.

4 hours later 3804781 Anonymous
Wow nice OP. Steppenwolf and Nausea have also been picked up recently.

4 hours later 3804783 Anonymous (51Oz53V8DaL.jpg 329x500 34kB)
Jude the Obscure and Nana (Douglas Parmée's translation for Oxford World's Classics) Thought Jude would be more entertaining tbh

4 hours later 3804784 Anonymous (enchanted-wanderer.jpg 1010x1500 120kB)
>>3804783 here also bought this and was glorious

5 hours later 3804790 Anonymous
>>3804784 Is there a download link for this?

5 hours later 3804792 Anonymous (yeg1VQS.jpg 820x719 164kB)
>The Flowers of Evil I like you

5 hours later 3804794 Anonymous
>>3804792 6/10

5 hours later 3804795 Anonymous
Taipei by Tao Lin (Helsinki has one store selling it already) The Feast of the Goat by Llosa War and Peace, the horrible four dollar edition

5 hours later 3804810 Anonymous
Rimbaud - Illuminations HP Lovecraft - At the mountains of madness Max Frisch - Homo Faber Marguerite Duras - The Lover Michel Serres - The Five Senses

5 hours later 3804813 Anonymous
>>3804781 Everything there cost £26. Steppenwolf was the only Hesse book on sale. i've been wanting to read Nausea too. I was actually hoping to find Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism, but i'm probably better off starting with Nausea. >>3804778 Will look into it Other Voices, Other Rooms. >>3804792 I have episodes 1-5 of Flowers of Evil on my drive. Troll face character designs annoy me, but I will probably watch once its over.

5 hours later 3804814 Anonymous
>>3804790 http://ge{systemthinksthisisspam, put a dot here}tt/1RPQo1i

5 hours later 3804819 Anonymous (books.jpg 1456x2592 900kB)
dat consumption feel

5 hours later 3804833 Anonymous
I'm going to buy some today(it's 5 am now) but mostly, if not all, are going to be classics books I've read a long time ago.

5 hours later 3804835 Anonymous
>>3804833 Like what?

5 hours later 3804841 Anonymous
>>3804835 Well, War and Peace, Iliad, Aeneid, Brothers Karamazov and Count of Monte Cristo are the ones I'm sure I'll buy. Any other book I go for what I find.

6 hours later 3804852 Anonymous
Every weekend we have a flea market in town and there are tons of people who are getting rid of their old hardcovers. So you can basically get good classics, as hardcovers for a euro or even cheaper. The last time I got there I got around 30 books for a little more than 20 euros. And the best thing was, someone was selling the old books of there dead grandfather, which was basically a goldmine. Got five novels by Zola, a number by Tolstoy, Oblomov by Gontscharow and some more.

6 hours later 3804861 Anonymous
>>3804769 >A Midsummer Night's Dream - DFW leld

6 hours later 3804865 Anonymous
>>3804819 I love no longer human. coin locker babies is alright. pkd is king but those covers suck. fuck virginia woolf (never read a word), always wanted to read THE BIG SUR as a kid, just b/c it's such a good name. wtf does sur refer to? I feel like even if I read it, I'd never find out.

6 hours later 3804869 Anonymous
>>3804865 It's Spanish for 'south,' and Woolf is great.

9 hours later 3805063 Anonymous
>>3804819 >Dazai. You. I like you.

10 hours later 3805163 Anonymous
>>3804292 whats the Baudelaire poems like?

11 hours later 3805191 Anonymous
>>3805163 I also want the answer to this question because that book looks pretty and the OWC editions I already have are really lovely.

11 hours later 3805246 Anonymous
>>3805191 I like pretty things

11 hours later 3805269 Anonymous
>>3804819 I'm sorry to hear that man

12 hours later 3805438 Anonymous
>>3805163 Dual translation.

13 hours later 3805463 Anonymous
Just the other day i got a delivery of The left hand of darkness Heart of darkness Siddhartha For whom the bell tolls Moby dick Last and least, 4-pack of Game of thrones. It was just at a really good sale, might make time for it in 2015.

13 hours later 3805471 Anonymous
>>3805163 I have only read the poems in prose (Paris Spleen) and I found them great, I really like how he likes to capture the moment. I read them in Spanish though, which is more related to French than English

13 hours later 3805533 Anonymous
1984

14 hours later 3805598 Anonymous
>>3805463 good haul but just toss out the GoT

14 hours later 3805616 Anonymous
>>3804292 Inferno. It was terrible. No surprises there though. History of Western Philosophy. Good so far, but going to take me a few months to read as it is kind of dry. The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott. 9/10, best thing I've read in a while.

14 hours later 3805618 Anonymous
>>3804865 big sur is a place you donk

14 hours later 3805625 Anonymous
>>3804819 tfw I live right by the henry miller library in big sur

15 hours later 3805662 Anonymous (IMG_20130530_102448.jpg 1280x960 460kB)
I think I just came her to show off. these aren't even recent buys. also have 1st tpb androids but a friend is borrowing it

15 hours later 3805665 Anonymous
Caín and The Gospel according to Jesus Christ,both by Saramago

15 hours later 3805711 Anonymous (IMG_20130530_104202.jpg 1280x960 452kB)
>>3805662 and these are my most recent buys

15 hours later 3805755 Anonymous
>>3805662 Where did you get these from?

15 hours later 3805762 Anonymous
>>3804783 >liking Hardy Tess is an abomination.

15 hours later 3805775 Anonymous
>>3805755 local used bookstores that don't appreciate pkd and stuff him in between all the other sci fi, some on the internet.

15 hours later 3805778 Anonymous
>>3805755 >not going to Oxfam on a regular basis Do you even book?

16 hours later 3805787 Anonymous
>>3805778 We don't all live in a veritable metropolis, some of us live in the most remote areas with grazing herds of elk.

16 hours later 3805795 Anonymous
>>3805787 thriftbooks (pub date old to new) and eBay is all you really need

16 hours later 3805799 omnihil
Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows The Bodhisattva's Brain by Owen Flanagan Introduction to Probability Theory by Paul G. Hoel, Sidney C. Port, and Charles Jones A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan

16 hours later 3805811 Anonymous
I'm terribly sorry to hijack this excellent thread, but which reader (software) would you recommend?

16 hours later 3805833 Anonymous
Wittgenstein's Mistress Life & Fate Maigret has Scruples That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana Selected Grimm's Tales Kaputt all for free

17 hours later 3805949 Anonymous
Dan Brown - Inferno Kurt Vonegut - 2 B R 0 2 B Lance Manion - Homo sayswhaticus Jerome K. Jerome - Fanny and the Servant Problem H.G. Wells - War of the Worlds all but Dan free

17 hours later 3805970 Anonymous
>>3804602 You just happen to have terrible taste

17 hours later 3805979 Anonymous
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

17 hours later 3805988 Anonymous
>>3805662 What did you think of Ubik? I personally found it to be fantastic. 8/10.

17 hours later 3806011 Anonymous
>>3804292 Hey OP, where do I buy books with hipster covers like you?

17 hours later 3806013 Anonymous
>>3806011 England, clearly. You can get those from WHSmith or Blackwell's.

17 hours later 3806022 Anonymous
Dune HP Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction East of Eden

18 hours later 3806025 Anonymous
>>3806013 Not to mention amazon.

18 hours later 3806030 Anonymous (DSC00889.jpg 2048x1536 677kB)
These came in the post yesterday. Probably going to get stuck into them properly next week.

18 hours later 3806033 Anonymous
>>3806011 OP here. I got mine from Blackwells.

18 hours later 3806035 Anonymous
>>3806030 >get stuck into What a hideous phrase.

18 hours later 3806043 Anonymous
>>3805762 Hey I was that guy. If you read the post closer you will see I'm not really enjoying Jude.

18 hours later 3806071 Anonymous (053013133422.jpg 1536x2048 570kB)
These were not exactly recent. It's been a couple of weeks. That's my third copy of The Canterbury Tales. I figured since it's twice the size of my other copies, there has to be something interesting in it, right? I haven't got around to really checking yet.

18 hours later 3806078 Anonymous (louise_bobsburgers.gif 467x352 499kB)
>>3806043 What the hell is wrong with you? That book is nearly perfect and you are a cad for not enjoying it. It's not supposed to be entertaining. It's supposed to be devastating.

18 hours later 3806094 Anonymous
>>3806078 But the prose is fucking terrible.

18 hours later 3806096 Anonymous
>>3806071 >not getting the Riverside You dun goofed

18 hours later 3806130 Anonymous
>>3806094 Well, the prose is fantastic, so you're just wrong there. The entirety of the literary community will tell you that. I was purposely overreacting with my previous post, but you're complaint is the prose? I've never once heard that about Hardy by anyone. At least not about his later works. Is it your first foray into the Victorian style? I'm honestly befuddled by your complaint. I simply cannot grasp the concept off someone disliking Hardy's prose. If it were his poetry, I could understand, but not his prose.

18 hours later 3806132 Anonymous
>>3806096 Yeah, I've got that copy.

18 hours later 3806164 Anonymous
>>3806078 His poetry is better than his prose. Much, much better. Her Song is an English favourite, and an oft transliterated lyric.

19 hours later 3806195 Anonymous
>>3806164 Never cared for Victorian poetry in general. Most poetry written after 1838 is "meh" in my book.

19 hours later 3806220 Anonymous
>>3806195 Never cared for Victorian prose. Dickens is fucking awful, except for A Christmas Carol.

20 hours later 3806395 Anonymous
I went to savers on a whim today and managed to score fahrenheit 451 and a collection of the first four dune books for $3.50

20 hours later 3806428 Anonymous (1357970754409.jpg 369x368 28kB)
>>3804865 >>3805063 I already read No Longer Human and it was pretty awesome. I ordered "The Setting Sun" I hope it's good too.

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35 hours later 3808096 Anonymous (IMG_20130531_111312.jpg 1600x1200 269kB)
>inb4 pt-br

37 hours later 3808374 Anonymous
>>3804654 That's just an "ripped" inset of the original cover. >I have an original 1966 copy.

37 hours later 3808436 Anonymous
>>3808096 TWO Monte books? >>3806428 I will buy "The Setting Sun" soon. How much did you pay for your copy of NLH? i've seen some anons pay a stupid amount, but I got mine for £10 via ebay since amazon don't sell it.

37 hours later 3808451 Anonymous
>>3808436 It's volume 1 and 2.

38 hours later 3808477 Anonymous
Picked up Oblomov by Goncharov yesterday, loving it so far.

38 hours later 3808518 Anonymous (HM-Dance(UK)Paper[1].jpg 600x954 74kB)
Needed a break from all the dull nonfiction I've had to read lately and a friend recomended this. Like it so far.

48 hours later 3810297 Anonymous (IMG_20130531_200713.jpg 1280x960 400kB)
>>3805662 here's the missing one that I didn't have at the time

49 hours later 3810356 Anonymous
>>3805662 That's a whoooole lotta dick. I have a similar collection myself.

49 hours later 3810362 Anonymous (thus-spoke-zarathustra.jpg 300x463 25kB)
>>3808096 Silly.

49 hours later 3810379 Anonymous
>Buying books except when necessary or as gifts for stone age people Oh /lit/.

49 hours later 3810383 Anonymous (2013-05-31 21.54.39.jpg 2048x1536 775kB)
Fresh from today, from this quaint little bookshop in San Telmo (oldest neighbourhood in Buenos Aires). I also got a guide to prepare for the GRE and the MLA Handbook, even though it's super old. Before The NY Trilogy, I bought a second-hand edition of Ian McEwan's Saturday.

49 hours later 3810401 Anonymous
>>3805762 God I hated Tess so much. Fortunately I bought a copy for peanuts. I'm so re-selling it. >>3806071 I have two copies of The Canterbury Tales, the Penguin edition (the one I ended up using in college) and a Bantam edition. The Penguin is rhymed, the Bantam has on one page the original verse and on the other a literal translation. >>3805662 All that Dick. Nice.

49 hours later 3810419 Anonymous
>>3808082 It's like you purposely avoided buying the bestest work from each author

50 hours later 3810543 Anonymous
>>3810356 >I have a similar collection post it

51 hours later 3810569 Anonymous
>>3808436 what I got mine from amazon. five dorrar shipping and five dorrar for the book, canadian dorrar not that it makes much difference.

52 hours later 3810760 Anonymous
>>3810569 guh?

52 hours later 3810767 Anonymous (nameoftherose.jpg 333x500 64kB)
>>3808082 your version of the name of the rose is so much cooler than this one

52 hours later 3810789 Anonymous
galapagos, vonnegut. notsurewhattoexpect.pdf

54 hours later 3810843 Anonymous
>>3804292 Cities of the red night - Burroughs Drowned World - Ballard Neuromancer - Gibson

66 hours later 3812328 Anonymous (Photo on 6-1-13 at 4.59 PM.jpg 640x426 82kB)
Just bought these four. T. H. White - The Once and Future King Stephen King - The Long Walk H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds

67 hours later 3812385 Anonymous
Ada The Eye A Confederacy of Dunces The Trial The Crying of Lot 49

67 hours later 3812399 Anonymous
>>3812385 Oh, and found The Clock We Live On for 50 cents in a bin full of Christian and college course textbooks. Whoddathunk it?

67 hours later 3812401 Anonymous
>>3810789 it's one of his most boring works. it's pretty good though.

67 hours later 3812489 I'm a fag?
>>3810383 I'm reading that now.

67 hours later 3812507 Anonymous
Sinclair Lewis - Main Street Anatoly Ribakov - Children of the Arbat John Steinbeck - The Short Reign of Pippin IV

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My haul from a huge book sale earlier today. 8 books for 8 bucks

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