>>7613512
I want that edition of Emerson sooooo bad. How much did it cost?
>>7613579
I picked it up for roughly $30
>>7613579
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780940450158&sts=t
bruh
>>7613612
>http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780940450158&sts=t
>dat dere shipping cost cuz not Murrican
It hurts.
brazilian edition of a clockwork orange
I just ordered pic related with a gift card I got for Xmas. It was between this and The Stand. Did I make the right decision?
>>7613716
You did. Way better than The Stand.
>>7613770
>buying books
Holy shit, you guys got meme'd.
Cicero's De Oratore
Bruno's The Expulsion of the Triumpant Beast
The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice
>>7613716
Thank you for reminding me of this.
I've been meaning to look into it.
Aristotle Complete Works - The Oxford Set
Got them for pretty cheap, and they're in pristine condition.
>>7614335
Pic?
>>7613512
for classes, but, stoked anyway
Revold Against the Modern World
Meaning of Shakespeare
The Science of Interstellar
![20160122_223802[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mPYcDT4.jpg "20160122_223802[1].jpg")
>>7613512
+Petersburg
>>7613770
>B&N Garnett translation of Crime and Punishment
ya blew it
>>7614498
Any comments on that edition of V.?
I've been meaning to pick it up, but wasn't sure which to get.
Probably going to get the hardcover of The City and the City.
>>7614509
I haven't read it yet. I found it at a Half Price Books. It can't be as bad as the Penguin Deluxe Classics edition of Gravity's Rainbowwhich I own.
>>7614591
It has the missing sentence, but I penciled it in after looking it up. I don't know about errors content-wise, but there is some noticeable grammar mistakes. Not BURN IT WITH FIRE tier like people make it out to be, but still disappointing
>>7613659
I have the same book, '86 edition apparently.
Bought it used, just like pic related
All them for ~6 dollah
>>7613773
the worst two Hemingway novels lol
>>7614608
Also I wish I could read Conrad in English, but it was too cheap to decline
>>7614307
What I wouldn't do for that hardcover copy of Moby-Dick.
Except move to US/Canada, that's a bit much for a book.
>>7614472
>>7614335
Here you go.
Also got the Third Reich Trilogy from my dad. I've heard good things about them
>>7614512
How are my purchases guys?
>>7614630
Do you really want to know?
These two came in pretty recently.
Ulysses is smaller than I expected it to be, but it's over 1,000 pages.
>>7614632
Uh, sure?
Serious question:
Is the Everyman's Library version of Ulysses best?
>>7614640
They're pretty decent. Hope you enjoy them.
>>7614641
Best I've come across
>>7614644
Thanks mate.
>>7614645
Thank you.
>>7614653
>Senran
Terrible
>>7613512
unfortunately, that's not the best translation of petersburg, but it's still one of my favorite russian novels. the man was a genius, blows away most writers in technical ability. absolutely genius. if you're curious about a superior translation, Elsworth is your man.
>>7614639
read Ulysses after. if you read Ulysses first and then IJ, you're going to be supremely disappointed. it's like wading through the ocean deep, then getting out, and diving head first into the kiddie pool.
no bully pls
>>7614687
also i hate the paperstock on this gravity's rainbow. it's weird and ridgy
>>7614681
Really? Wow, thanks for the advice.
>>7614687
>Penguin Gravity's Rainbow
Oh boy.
>>7614512
didn't think /lit/ liked mieville? you read embassytown yet? I loved it
>>7614694
what's so bad about it?
>>7614699
>>7614701
i'd be curious to see a list of printing errors. if anything that makes the book more of an experiment in itself for me. the comparison between editions and what not.out of those books it wasn't a purchase on my end, it was a christmas gift from an aging mother
>>7614509
That's the copy I got by chance. I haven't read it yet so fuck if I know :^)
>>7614641
Definitely. There's even a little section in the back showing Gifford's map of the chapters times and relations to body part, section of the Odyssey, etc.
>>7614687
You should have known better.
>>7614690
yeah, Infinite Jest's difficulty and quality is very oversold, whereas Ulysses has some of the most incredible words put to paper. Ignore all the threats of difficulty when you're reading Ulysses, just try to experience it, and the sooner you get lost in it, the better, don't worry about "getting it" until you come back to it a second time.
Apocalypse - DH Lawrence
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
Selected Poems - TS Eliot
Saint Genet - Jean Paul Sarte
My most recent purchase was some meme YA shit my dumbass friend told me to buy. Too asshamed to post it here.
>>7614767
Post it damn. You're anonymous anyway.
>>7614620
I'll let you have it if you touch me in lewd places
>>7614797
how far back is recent? the edition I got for christmas in the picture is 2006
>>7614846
it wont say the date, they've been pumping out the same "edition" for a decade. I just noticed fixed copies last year. if whoever walked into a b&n and picked it up it's likely one of the newer fixed ones.
I bought eight books from thriftbooks last Saturday or Sunday and I think I was supposed to get some of them today but the fucking ice storm ruined that. Rain, sleet, snow or hail, you fuckers.
>>7614608
Nice, i think that the cover with the small guy is better but its still an awesome book
>>7614992
>that physical copy of women and men
>>7614992
>Women and Men
How much did you end up paying? Be honest.
Also, Ovid's Metamorphoses.
>>7614701
heh I have one of those waldo ones and the font changes around midway
Waiting on these to come in.
I have a copy of moby dick already, but it's a small mass market paperback version.
>>7613716
so you went with a trash book that won because of politics instead of a trash book.
yeah you did so much better!
>>7615242
About $120USD after shipping. I justified it by bumming an expensive textbook from my friend, so technically the university bought it for me ;).
>>7616078
>Barnes and Noble Classics
why
>>7614639
still the best IJ cover
>>7616287
During finals I would always walk around our library and steal textbooks from STEMfags and sell the books early. I normally made around $500 every semester. They were primarily textbooks from Asian students that could hardly speak English.
>>7616078
Barnes and Noble Classics series are absolutely disgusting. feel terrible in the hand, the paper tears when you turn the pages, and they smell like compost. the introductions are usually decent, though. i bought 2 for classes last semester and hated them so much. one of them was a double feature, portrait of the artist and dubliners. but they put dubliners second? why?
>>7616078
I have that copy of Moby Dick and it's pretty solid if you can forgive them omitting the last few words to a sentence on a page and the godawful notes
>>7613659
awful book
>>7616308
>Ishiguro
>Kite Runner
>The English Patient
You must be a woman.
>>7616298
I haven't had any issues with them. I like the size and formatting.
>>7616287
Why so expensive?
>translations
>>7616426
It's been out of print for like 20 years.
>>7616426
Because pretentious hipsters think they're patrician for saying that want to read ultimately driving up the cost of the book
>>7616435
what languages do you speak?
>>7616307
I own and am reading the addition you talk about. The only problem I have with it is that the footnotes are really mundane
>>7613512
Ayy Bely. I almost bought that, but went with Platonov instead. Would it be worth picking up next?
>>7616492
Well that makes sense.
>>7616510
All of them.
>>7616372
I go to a recycling center and pick up free books, usually. Most of the people that donate are women.
Best stuff I've found there is some Calvino and the Oedipus trilogy.
>>7614307
>that Moby Dick
Why are so many anons being Petersburg lately? I might give it a re-read sometime this year but I have the Pushkin Press edition as opposed to the Penguin.
Recently picked up:
Warlock-Oakley Hall
Mythologies-Roland Barthes
Satantango-László Krasznahorkai
Paris Peasant-Louis Aragon
I've only read the first chapter of Satantango but I've enjoyed it a lot, just something about the tone while bleak can sound so calming. Which Krasznahorkai should I get next and any I immediately should get my hands on?
>>7616770
I meant >buying Petersburg
Stupid Firefox
>>7613659
Great book
>>7616770
I think it appeared in one of those "new meme trilogy" pics
>>7616775
Tell me about that Tolstoy please. Price, quality and content.
>>7616527
mundane, excessive, and distracting. the professor asked for the penguin, and i found that B&N missed all the notes Penguin supplied that would have been enlightening.
>>7616775
Have you read Dreams of Amputation yet? It sounded interesting
scored this for a penny plus shipping. couldn't believe it.
>>7616804
>Price
about $12
>quality
haven't started reading it yet, the text looks clean, can't see any problems
>content
see pic
>>7616977
Not yet
>>7617024
I cannot find Ligotti's stuff anywhere in the UK. I had to wait for Penguin Classics to release Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Fucking nightmare.
>>7617113
Can you not get Teatro Grottesco? That one had a decently wide paperback release. My Work is Not Yet Done had the same, I believe. His out of print stuff is a pain in the ass to find anywhere.
>>7617139
I picked up Teatro Grottesco off Amazon and I pirate My Work is Not Yet Done, but I legitimately cannot find anything else.
>>7613631
Mirin that treasure trail.
>>7617145
Everything other than the ones you listed and Conspiracy Against the Human Race is out of print, I think. I guess just hope that Penguin or some other publisher reprints his other stuff in an affordable manner.
>>7616731
not sure exactly what emotion the picture is meant to convey here
>>7617093
Translations of your pic related please?
pls no bully
>>7618715
Bullying improves your taste, duh.
>ITT: We post our most obscure books to show strangers on the Internet how smart and interesting we are
>>7619215
woah projecting
>>7619237
woah ad hominem
>>7619215
Buying /lit/-core books makes you look like a drone.
Buying even slightly obscure books makes you look pretentious.
This thread would trigger you no matter what people posted.
>>7619258
Or you could... I don't know, post books you really like no matter how smart they are/sound? Just sayin.
>>7619287
But what if I actually like those obscure books?
You're supposed to post the last books you've bought, anyway. You can't know if they are good or not.
>>7614677
I heard it was better than Elsworth, what's the difference?
>>7619295
>But what if I actually like those obscure books?
Funny thing, everybody seems to be like you.
Whoah, it's almost like everybody wants their books to be more obscure books than everyone else! What a coincidence!
>>7619349
>>7614624
that evans trilogy is fucking solid, really readable. you'll have a gas
>>7619349
This is some prime time plebbitry, keep the good bait up lad.
>>7614609
>for whom the bell tolls
>bad
someone get me off this ride
>>7619606
>>7619606
Did a good book shaggy your mum or something lol
Not our fault your a pleb, no need to get aggy ya muppet
Really enjoying zarathustra so far. Was reading ulysses but I might take a break to read Nietzsche because frankly I find Ulysses a bit boring- although many chapters were quite thrilling, when not too obtuse. I feel as though a difficult or lengthy book is like a bottleneck for my backlog.
>>7619524
Thanks. I'm really excited to start it. The only downside is I probably shouldn't read them in public. Some people might get the wrong idea.
>>7619349
Which books here are even remotely obscure? All I see is typical /lit/-core.
>>7616372
Ishiguro is based, though.
>>7614687
>Penguin
>>7620186
he is stringing you along for laughs and you are making it easy for him
you should stop
>>7618715
The cat.
Love it.
More.
R8 my consumerism
>>7622950
r8 my mom's tablecloth than
>>7622950
Nice choices, specially dat dere Doctor Faustus edition. I actually borrowed it from my uni's library for a class. Such a great play, man, and such a good edition. I wanted to buy that edition but I'm short on money. If I have some spare change before I return home (I'm on an exchange atm), I'll totally pick it up.
>>7624610
Are you an Erasmus student?
>>7619287
How you are supposed to buy books you like if you haven't even read them yet?
>>7624711
Something like that, but not quite. Erasmus, as far as I know, are only from European nations. I'm an affiliate student from Mexico, but I have exactly the same status as an Erasmus student, I think. I'm at London, btw, UCL.
When Gravity Fails - George Effinger
Permutation City - Greg Egan
Imaginary Cities - Darran Anderson
Nietzsches Corps/e: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophesy, or The Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life - Geoff Waite
Might have overpaid slightly for that last one.
![8921dfb7ef[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/05SoOKN.jpg "8921dfb7ef[1].jpg")
Is Op's edition of Petersburg the best translation available?
>>7624828
I can't speak to the various translations for Petersburg specifically, but McDuff translations are generally considered to be quite good.
>>7624805
Read the Corpus Hermeticum before Kybalion
>>7625045
Why's that?
bought in last month
>>7625640
What's the name of this? The cover intrigues me, but, unbelievably, googling "que of ri bvre" just presents me with a bunch of gobbledygook.
And recent purchases:
> Parallel Stories / Peter Nadas
> Unrecounted / W.G. Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp
> Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid / Douglas Hofstadter
> My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante
I went Everyman's crazy and bought the War & Peace box set, and Moby-Dick and Dubliners are en route from book depository.
I also decided to try some Oxford classics Shakespeare which should arrive soon. Some of you guys told me they we're great.
here goes
>>7625767
Nice. Is the War and Peace set with you? If so, would you mind taking a picture or two of them?
>>7625786
>triggered
Just got in today
>>7625787
Gotchu senpai
>>7625925
Another
>>7625932
what publishing company does that edition?
>>7625938
Knopf/Random House
>>7625938
The original post said: Everyman's.
>>7625854
Aw shieeet I have that same Eliot collection
>>7625971
I thought it was one of the "Critique of" books by Kant, but in some other language.
Should be interesting.
>>7625971
yup, it's the one verso has
Yes, translations.
>>7626155
>homero
Why is spanish so darn silly?
>>7626168
It's Portuguese.
>>7626191
Not that Anon
hope this helps at least a little
I am not sure if it's worth the 50€
>>7626191
I'm typically very hesitant about opening any book all the way but the binding on them is solid.
Text is dense but very legible. Included is a fabulous intro by Rf Christian which set a level 99 comfy mood.
アサシンズプライド
It won the grand prize at the recent Fantasia Bunko awards. I'd say it's pretty good, has cute moments of bonding of MC and the heroine, some lewd moments, what's not to like?
>>7626228
Wait what.
Are the books really small or are your hands just really fucking big?
>>7626265
I think he just has big hands.
>>7626265
Spread out from pinkie to thumbtip my hand covers 8 inches. My hands are the freakishly disproportionate subjects in that pic.
>>7626260
I guess I could also show some of the illustrations.
>>7626298
It's really good, mostly because I know nobody on /lit/ has ever read it.
>>7626304
Rating books by them being obcure on /lit/ just makes you look like a poser.
>>7614687
What's the book on the bottom with the target design?
>>7614992
I have that same Burroughs. Is late Burroughs really difficult? I heard that somewhere on here. I know W&M is super difficult from trying to read it, and Goodreads suggests Darconville's cat to me all the time because I have a shelf of hard books I couldn't get through.
>>7626304
>nobody on /lit/ has read it
>>7626168
You know that homero is closer to the greek than homer, right?
>>7626155
ESOPO
S
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P
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I love fables, pham. Have fun reading them.
I'm trying to get my hands on La Fontaine's fables from Uni of Illinois Press
>>7616080
Its hardly propaganda. Luckily I know almost nothing about international politics so all I took away from that book was good interviews and stories of survival.
I don't have a proper shelf so I put my books in this dresser
>>7614701
I like this. Are there more of these for other authors?
>>7626431
>>7626431
Is the spine of your copy of American Psycho all black or is it white and blue?
>>7626437
its black
![WP_20160126_002[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hzAIFXA.jpg "WP_20160126_002[1].jpg")
Last month/month and a half.
>>7626168
>Original Greek: Homeros
>Spanish/Portuguese: Homero
>English: Homer
English is literally retarded.
>>7626219
I think I like it in its physical version anon
>>7626228
Thanks man. Regarding the opening of the book, you should be able to. More so if you it costs 70 dollars. What about the paper quality? I imagine it's good but I'd like to hear it from you.
I like it and I think I'm going to buy it.
>>7626717
I'm not him, but I own two Everymans and the paper quality is sehr gut. Acid-free and all.
>>7626717
Pages are solid and feel timeless. Acid free construction makes it elegant as fuark too. $70 sounds like an investment (got my collection on sale) but I'm very happy with it and would have got it had it not been on sale.
>>7626695
I can tell you never read a LN like that.
>>7626978
Where do you live?
It's £19 down here in English.
>>7626987
*England
>>7626986
Why would I want to read weeaboo fanfiction with shitty prose and no literary value? If I want to fap to underage anime girls I can just go to Exhentai.
Leave this place you disgusting pleb. Light Novels belong in /jp/.
>>7626987
Canadia, my set cost me $35.
>>7626978
I'm going for it. It's expensive as fuck in book depository but that's my way of getting books here.
>>7627419
The translation is shit though
>>7627442
The Maudes translation is excellent, and approved by Leo himself.
Don't shitpost.
>>7627451
It was approved by Tolstoy because it was the first good translation. Compared to newer translations it's not as good. I don't know why I'm bothering though, you just want a pretty book set
>>7627461
I'm not the one buying it. And how could it be the first *good* translation if it's shit?
I don't know why I'm bothering though, you just want to shitpost.
>>7627442
What's a better translation?
>>7627442
Stay buttmad, shitskin.
>>7626470
dutchfag
>>7627465
Not shitposting at all. Just because it was approved by tolstoy doesn't mean its the best. Maybe in the 1920s is was a great translation, but you're better off with Briggs or even P&V. If you insist on Maudes get the revised version released in 2010.
But like I said, you just want a pretty bookset so go for it :)
>>7614653
That book on music looks very interesting. Have you read some passages already? What's the quality of the book like?
>>7626470
>Falling for the Houellebecq meme
Het had zo anders kunnen aflopen...
>>7626470
>Men Without Women
>Women without Men
>No Women and Men
I mean c'mon
>>7614653
patrician
>>7626470
Any prior experience in reading Hedayat?
I've personally read Blind Owl and it became one of my favorite reads ever. Three Drops of Blood is actually kind in the same vain as Blind Owl. The other stories vary from historical fiction to fantastic, with only slight hints of surreal in them. But he's quite good
The blue-purple is Thucydides histories
>>7626168
>implying english is a better language than spanish.
It's just more famous, but it's stupid as fuck.
this is the stuff Ive ordered recently I also have a giant bag of books from the thrift store I haven't even gone through yet.
>>7627798
wew lad i c you're gearin up for Friday night
>>7625001
duly noted
>>7627798
this is the thrift store stuff mostly sci fi
>>7627835
i'm jealous of this haul, i fucking love old sci fi books. show us those covers please
>>7627830
no that's silly read the Corpus Hermeticum first
>>7627835
I have the same copy of Hocus Pocus, good read.
>>7627843
Seconded, I used to borrow stacks of Clarke novels from the library in my youth. The covers always amused me in a timely sort of way.
>>7626228
Stop biting your nails. Your hands already look like trotters.
>>7627508
It's a nice drink.
>>7627580
It was actually quite an enjoyable book. You shouldn't be so afraid to like what other people already like.
>>7627613
I honestly didn't know that title existed, otherwise I would've bought it. Quick bookdepository look for Women and Men only gives me ''Why Men Love Bitches''.
>>7627634
Yeah, The Blind Owl is my favorite novel, that's why I bought the book in the pic. Three Drops of Blood is indeed a lot like it, but it feels completely new regardless. Really like his mystical style. He was a pretty depressed man, though, reading some of his other stories.
>>7628500
I must admit I was memeing when I mentioned Women and Men. As it is notoriously difficult novel, as well as having being out of print for about two decades and thus hard to find.
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>>7627898
Then does that make your mum a podophiliac or a zoophiliac, on top of being a fleshy cumrag?
![WP_20160127_001[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sZgai2E.jpg "WP_20160127_001[1].jpg")
>>7616775
>>7616804
I have that Tolstoy collection. It's fine, a good read and a funny cover. The works in it are good as well. I've read Family Happiness, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Devil, The Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad from it, here's my book, spine and cover if you want to see the quality. I took this everywhere in my backpack and it's about two years old now.
>>7628698
Jesus Christ that is absolutely terrifying.
>>7628698
Translations?
>>7613512
The moby dick copy, the repeated books, richard the third and who´s afraid of Virginia Woolf are from a friend of mine (she took the photo).
>>7628725
I really like this binding of Moby Dick, its pretty sturdy and comfy to hold.
>>7628720
iirc one of the stories is translated by someone else. It's on the copyright page.
>>7626155
If you are gonna buy Spanish translations from Greek works I recommend you to buy them from Gredos Editorial.
>>7628730
It is, the only problem of that edition is that the letter is too small in my opinion.
>>7628744
In what I have, Robinson Crusoe, its not too bad, though I tend to agree its could be less dense even there.
What is up with /lit/'s absolute hard-on for classical literature at the seeming expense of contemporary lit?
>>7628759
Please ignore, I meant this to be a new thread. Doing it now!
>>7628759
what do you mean by Classical?
>>7626155
Vai pra casa, João.
P.S.
A versão da Ilíada da Penguin é boa mas, se puderes, cheques também a da Nova Fronteira. É em capa dura e o design é horrendo, mas estamos falando de traduções, afinal.
>>7628725
There's a used bookstore (comfy levels off the charts) in the old-town area of my city that sells many books with the binding of that copy of Moby-Dick. If they weren't a big investment I'd have gotten a few for pics.
If I lived closer to it I'd love to work there part time just for the experience.
