Recent purchases thread.
Bought some Japanese books that I couldn't find online.
The 3 on the top left are The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and below them are 3 Mishima novels (The Sailor Who Fell; Mishima's essay collection; Sound of Waves).
There's also Junichiro Tanizaki's short stories and Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen. Those are the ones that have a translation.
If anyone cares about the other ones, ask.
>>7664597
did dfw stage his suicide and become a japanese pleb author?
thats a whole lotta ching chong
Have 300 dollars should I buy a bunch of books or should I save it up to buy a comfy chair or a camera?
>>7664597
What's the bottom middle?
>>7665076
spend a third of that on a chair and fuck buying a camera
>>7664597
I'm curious about the other ones. What are they? All I recognize is Ogai Mori next to Murakami.
>>7665076
Youre not going to get a better camera than your average smart phone until the 600 or so dollar range
The blue is Mumsen's History of Rome
>>7664597
Classics but I know I'll never read most if any of them.
>>7664597
hey bud, let's party
>>7664597
I bought Anna Karenina (Oxford edition) and Soul by Platonov recently. Can't wait to get to them
>>7664597
holy shit. its the Japanese DFW
>>7665137
but ricoh gr
>>7664597
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea is an excellent novel
some used some ordered
>>7664597
Are you Japanese? Do you have an opinion on Nichiren and other Japanese authors?
walked into a barnes and noble for some coffee and walked out with all this, never read any of em.
>>7665509
>Thomas Aquinas
good deal m8
>>7665378
Shit I almost got Art of the Deal today, how is it?
I don't know what any of those are but they look nice
>>7665378
enjoy marquez man, I wish I could read OHYOS for the first time again
>>7665080
>>7665104
From left to right from OP pic or top to bottom from this pic.
1-3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
4. 私の美の世界 by Mori Mari (Mori Ogai's daughter)
5. 東京百景 by Naoki Matayoshi (or Japanese DFW according to this thread).
He won the Akutagawa Prize in 2015 which pissed a lot of people up.
6-8. Mishima Yukio: The Sailor Who Fell; Mishima's essay collection; Sound of Waves
9. The Tattooer and a few other works by Junichiro Tanizaki
10. Salamander and Other Stories by Masuji Ibuse
11. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
12. The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
13. Hyakken Uchida's essay collection
14. Still Lives by Natsuki Ikezawa
15. 第七官界彷徨 by 尾崎翠
>>7665522
Not Japanese. Haven't read anything by Nichiren yet.
Only read 1 or 2 books by other famous writers so far. Anything specific you're interested in?
>>7664639
Wow, I thought I was the only one on /lit/ who read Jim Crace.
>>7664597
Please what is about all the others, especially with the man and the blue-red-black one. from someone like yama(isn´t thisthe kanji for mountain?)
>>7666291
how long did it take you to be capable to read these in their original language
>>7666608
Thanks, but can´t recognize the covers.
>>7665083
>not investing a decent chunk of cash for a reading chair you'll be sitting in for ages
Holy shit anon, do you even read?
not really purchases, but these belonged to my grandfather, found them at my dad's.
>>7666656
patrician grandfather
>>7666668
yeh I know right, he also has a first edition winny the pooh and jungle book, the jungle book still has a swastika on the cover because it was pre-ww2.
that and a lot of signed first editions of big Dutch writers, but unfortunately my dad sold those
>>7666690
Ayyy, that must have hurt. Are you Dutch by any chance?
>>7666718
yes I am and yes it does.
>>7664597
>>7665378
The Mishima train has no brakes.
>>7666736
Did you take this picture in a sauna?
>>7666747
That's simply what the smoldering gayness of Mishima's prose does to the lens.
>>7666760
Oh yeah, I forgot that Maugham was also a queer.
...Huh.
Did I do well /lit/?
>>7666814
did well with your camera purchase t b h
>>7666814
>Norton Shakespeare
>>7665509
Catullus is dank as fuck, nice purchase.
>>7665708
Three of those books are fantastic.
One of them is unreadable garbage.
I'll leave it to you to find out which one I'm talking about.
>>7666608
>I've been studying by myself for about 2 years now
How serious have your studies been? Would you mind describing them? 2 years does not seem very long.
I bought a lot this last month. These are from this week.
>>7666870
Im gonna guess it's Nueromancer
>>7665509
Best ITT.
>>7666871
A lot of time reading and constant increase in material difficulty.
After the initial month of studying grammar and getting basic vocabulary I spent at least 4 hours a day reading.
It's a big bonus if you're into otaku culture since most manga and visual novels are quite easy and a great source for getting new vocabulary.
>thinking Sound of Waves isn't a hack job Mishima tooted out for $$$$
Christ, you idiots don't even do fucking research on the books you're buying. You just want to be seen owning them bcuz muh japaneeze literature
>>7667600
It's quite short and charming.
>>7667655
It was written cynically to be blandly palatable mush, to give idiot readers exactly what they expected out of a book.
Congrats on being a literal pleb.
>>7667600
>>7667669
I know you're mostly memeing but Sound of the waves is actually one of his most critically acclaimed novel.
Yes he did write a bunch of novels purely for money. 夏子の冒険 and pic related are good examples of that I think. They're so different from his other works and appeal to a large demographic.
Anyway I haven't read it yet so I can't comment myself but what didn't you like about it?
>>7667669
Who cares, reading can be fun without needing to be some high art that examines what it means to have free will or whatever.
>>7667684
It's his most critically acclaimed novel (excluding the tetralogy) because it's his his most widely read. Because the language used is at a much lower level than his real literary works. Duh. Also of the books he wrote purely for money, Sound of Waves has since been widely translated/circulated internationally.
It's not hard to see why dumb people enjoy it. The plot is the most average thing imaginable. Boy and girl fall in love for the first time. Familial and social barriers prevent them from being together. Boy proves his worth to girl's father. The end. That's it.
Don't waste your time on this one. Mishima's a fascinating writer, from his novels to plays to short stories, but SoW is of a completely lesser order.
>>7666996
How much for the Gredos edition of Aristóteles?
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Birthday haul
>>7668810
happy birthday anon
>>7667916
I really like that Catcher cover art. Is it new?
>>7668914
Thanks, that's very kind of you :3
>>7664639
That Tolkien cover is nice.
I just got
The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
Chimera - John Barth
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
for less than $10 total
Got these as a gift.
>>7669464
Then bought these
Picked these two up today from the bookstore. Don Quixote because you guys talk about it so much, and it seemed interesting, and Catch-22 because it was $10, so why the fuck not.
>>7666996
>Not reading Aristotle in ancient Greek
>>7669468
those sound like a blast
>>7667669
You're genuinely regarded and can't Substantiate that
Got this for .25 cents.
Did I fuck up? Should I kill myself?
How did I do
Currently I'm reading Butcher's Crossing. The film book is for a class but it's pretty interesting so I thought to include it.
>>7665378
>marquez
i got this book recently myself! different edition though, mines is blue
