Post your latest pickups, /lit/!
>>7978555
I forgot to add that I bought this shirt today, can't wait for it to be delivered!
https://readingfury.com/products/do-you-even-read-bro
Us readers, huh?
Why did they change the name of the first Harry Potter book for the US market?
>>7978563
Editors inventing problems to justify having a job
>>7978563
americans don't know what philosophy is.
Now I have to read all the books it talks about.
>>7978563
They figured philosopher's stone was too difficult for US kids.
>>7979231
>not reading Maupassant in original French
>not reading Nabokov in Russian
>not reading Chandler in Italian
come on now
Snagged these for a pal interested in postmodernism/lit
All 1 buck
>>7979493
Whoops
She was a chubby girl, I approached her gently. We sort of like cooking, went back to her flat.
Ok made love, wrote haikus
>>7979502
I haven't read a single post-modernist book but Sokal's critique is up next on my to-read list. I'm worried thats gonna make me get started on the wrong foot, what do you think
>>7978558
Sadly it only goes to single XL. It would have been an epic addition to my collection.
>>7979521
There's some debate on if post-modern is even a thing and whether we're beyond what "post-modern" is, ao really I just say read the books. Whatever catches your eye
Not sure which to read next, but it'll probably be either Don Quixote or Suite française.
>tfw still haven't read Don Quixote
>>7979537
I started it but being unfamiliar with chivalric stories, a lot of the humor/intent went over my head
>>7979537
>letters to vera
it's pretty bad tbqfwy
>>7979544
You should fix that and check out some Chrétien de Troyes, anon.
Why do you guys buy so many books at once? Who are you trying to impress?
>>7978555
You suck at books
>>7979733
I'm going to have a language arts classroom in two years, so i'm building up a library
>>7979733
Not him but i'm more inclined to read them if I see them on my bookshelf every time I go "What to read next?"
>>7979733
>leaving the house more than once a month
>>7978555
Are you a 14 year old girl?
>>7979231
>Lolita English translation
you fucked up
>>7979762
This is going to sound absurd, but when your comment gave me a strange feeling. The action of looking at a shelf packed with books and choosing which to read gave me a nostalgic feeling. Not one of reading, but eating. As if you were to eat a book, in a bite. A bite-sized cubed book. And the books were crunchy, but had an inner caramel consistency.
I'm pretty sure I'm autistic. Fuuuck
>>7979527
Just ask for an XXL. Im sure it will fit you fine
Tao Te Ching
Still.
I don't buy a fucking book every day.
I read them,and then I pick up 1-2 new ones.
This way you don't get flooded.
>>7979925
>lolita is translated meme
>>7979936
what
>>7979516
Writing haikus with a sweaty big girl seems dull
>>7979936
That's not autistic babe, it's cute
>>>7979231
>>not reading Nabokov in Russian
nice b8, fæm
>>7979527
kek
>>7979481
hahahah ebin, simply ebin
>>7979936
dafuq
>>7979521
The Sokal/Bricmont book is excellent. It will get you started on the *right* foot, so you'll know what to avoid.
Picked up these this week.
>>7979502
Underworld was a borefest.
>>7979759
>keeping books where kids can put their grimy hands on them
Fuck no. I used to steal my teachers books all the time.
>>7981511
>reading for plot
>>7978566
No Moby dick? gay pleb.
Got them this week
Excuse the shitty camera.
The 2 books on top of Moby-Dick are "I am a strage loop" and "De parte de la princesa muerta"
>>7981707
nice pick ups desu
Hey, anyone know a site like Thriftbooks but for us Eurofags? Thriftbooks still works and all but it's double the price for every book.
Waiting for this to come in the mail. Also just bought a Russian grammar book.
Candide by Voltaire.
This is how you write ("Így írtok ti") by Frigyes Karinthy.
It criticizes/parodies the hungarian literature of the 1900s.
Both were really cheap and new.
Guess I was just looking for a good laugh.
What do you think of the covers?
>>7979936
Dude, that's in an episode of Jimmy Neutron.
>>7978555
Rate
>>7984111
10/10. Well executed.
>>7984111
dem trips tho
didnt take this for the thread so i had some cds on there too
and fuck you i know im pleb but ill read books about rockstars all i fucking want
>>7984154
the first guy was trolling but u arent
I never buy books because they are usually really expensive but this was with a low-cost
>>7984258
NICE SCARF
>>7979217
Why don't you just pick up some Malcolm Gladwell while you're at it?
>>7979217
THE WHITE MANS BURDEN: WHY NIGGERS ARE TOO RETARDED TO DO ANYTHING ON THEIR OWN AND SHOULD HAVE JUST STUCK TO HUNTING ANTELOPES
>>7984154
>now a major motion picture
Why would you do this?
Also been reading Dune on my boyfriend's kindle. Good stuff.
>>7984983
Tao Te Ching is nice.
Worth multiple re-reads.
Where do you intend to start with Lovecraft?(if you are starting to read him just now)
Nice catch 9/10 overall.
>>7984258
nice scarf faggot.
Why did you have to be such a faggot hipster?
Nobody pictures themselves with a book in the thread.
Everyone uses a blanket
>>7979578
Radical
>>7984111
ebin and fine
>>7978555
I'm actually pooping right now and I could've just given you shit for free.
>>7984983
Nice. Is Anne Franks diary desu actually good?
I always saw kids reading in middle school.
>>7978555
Why can't the bloody harry potter books be the same size?
For Heaven's sake,they are a series.
>>7979217
Does anyone have the edition that includes the bit on Bergson? All the libraries I've access to only have the editions w/o and this goes for the torrents I've tried as well.
>>7985190
and I'm talking about Fashionable Nonsense, by the way
Don't h8 pls
>>7981707
That's a really good Hesse, far superior to any of his hippie proto-beatnigger shit like Steppenwolf or Siddharta
>>7979231
Why is it that in every meme thread some faggot has to fuck it up and post seriously?
>>7985319
What do you mean "post serously"?
I posted seriously.
Only a few fucks memed.
>>7978585
hey there qt
>>7978566
>Buttrustle!
Sounds like one of those images people used to make with smug anime girls and a bunch of grammatically fucked text talking about how rekt you just got
Nothing too special recently. Most of my shit is ebooks now
>>7981707
>that edition of moby dick
post a pic of that one only pls
also where can i get it
>>7978566
>This was written
>This Printed
>This was released
>Stores sold it
>Someone bought it
>Read it
>Jerked off while holding it
>Then he sold them
>Then the shop sold them
>You bought it
I don't know which is the saddest.
>>7985425
Sure, here it is.
It was sheer luck, I found it on a used bookstore in México for like 6 usd (The owner is american so most of the titles are in english)
>>7985053
So far I've read The Beast in The Cave, The Alchemist, and The Tomb, all have been fantastic.
With Lovecraft, I'm just reading what strikes my fancy. I can take my time since I have so much of it. I'll tackle the Dunwich Horror and Call of Ctulthu soon
>>7985159
Haven't started it. I'm excited to read it though.
2$ each. Don't know if I'll ever read them.
>>7986493
It really is, I couldn't leave the store without it.
There's a few copies on Amazon and maybe you could find it on ebay.
>>7986520
1 to 5 is a quick read.
>>7986520
>buying books just for show
I mean, they were absolutely cheap but at least make the effort to read them
>>7978585
Shouldn't you have done that first?
>>7986520
Just read them Sven, they're great.
>>7985200
cunt
>>7984154
What in the fuck
>>7979481
Nabakov wrote in english, dumbass
>>7978585
no lo he leido, pero está linda la edición. La edición se parece un poco a las ediciones de Einaudi
>>7985200
noice, faggot.
>>7978566
Ooh, I'm stiff.
>>7978555
KING...KING!
You guys ready?
>>7988150
>Italian Folktale
I'm jelly, how much did you pay for it?
>>7988057
They seem really interesting, specially Cantos and I really dig that cover for TCOL49.
Hope you enjoy them all
>>7988207
$7 at my local Half Price Books
>>7988219
I hate you a little bit, I wish we had things like that over here... Anyway, I hope you enjoy it a lot
>>7987411
>responding to a _____
I would say, that it was a good purchase
$8 new
what a steal
Picked up Brothers Karamazov a bit ago. Could someone explain self laceration for me? I'm retarded but I have a vague idea of what it is, I was wondering if /lit/ could explain it better
pls help a retard
Why has everyone bought the same books as me?
>>7985406
Eyyyy
>>7992030
Could you tell a little about GEB? I can't find its translation for my native language anywhere and I don't know how complex the book is so I'm not sure if I'd be able to read it in english. My professor keeps asking me to read it, tho
>>7992156
I normally read books at a page a minute on average, and take pauses infrequently to digest.
This book took me a week to get through 100 pages.
It is incredibly quick to establish certain logical foundations such as isometries and Godel's 'set of all sets does not include itself' theory and then expect you to apply these, without guidance from the book, to new concepts introduced in the same manner.
I recommend the book if you have a lot of time, love puzzles/thought experiments(there are hundreds of those), and/or absolutely love learning.
Also a firm grasp on abstract mathematical concepts is a must.
>>7992016
I literally just bought and finished dune this week and am starting infinite jest tomorrow
>>7984983
Hyperion ended in a really strange place. I need to pick up the sequel eventually.
>>7992211
>Godel's 'set of all sets does not include itself' theory
You are confusing Godel with Russell's paradox.
>>7992389
True, sorry, Godel showed that no system can encompass all relationships between numbers and cannot illustrate its own internal consistency, which the book applies to Russell's paradox to bring about supersets, which are sets containing sets.
So a set of all sets does not contain itself because it is a superset rather than a set.
>>7992496
Jesus fuck, just stop.
>>7992496
Russell's paradox deals with set-membership, not set-inclusion. Two different relations. And in some flavours of set theory set-membership need not necessarily be applied to sets only. Cows and frogs work too.
If A is a subset of B, then B is a superset of A.
If A is a member of B, then B is not a superset of A.
Why not brush up on actual theory than read puffed-up pop-math take on it? It's doing more damage than good.
>>7984983
>Wild Animus
Are you a college student in California? lol
From a flea market. $10 for all of this, and $5 of that was for the sun also rises.
>>7992555
Would you rather I say meta-set, a higher order of sets, which is what the book was implying?
I'm just trying to show the ramifications Godel's theorems had on Russel's principia, which had internal inconsistency but could not determine its that inconsistency through its own axioms, that inconsistency being a matter of sets containing sets and the need for orders of magnitude of sets. More metamathematics than set theory I guess.
>>7989722
>that edition of 1984
That could be worth some money.
>>7984154
>Vineland next to those other books
>>7978555
Almost everything laying on its side is a new pick up that isn't hardcover.
>>7993112
Somebody was very happy with their recent purchases
>>7993099
Actually bought this stack in a surplus store, buried in children's toys since no one reads here anymore.
I'm not selling any of them. Thanks for noticing it! It's my best book stack bought in one day - ever.
>>7991412
Isn't it always that cheap? Bought it for 9$, the quality is shit.
>>7992656
isn't Closing Time supposed to be awful?
Anything like thriftbooks but for EU?
>>7991389
where did you get that copy of solaris? It's a nightmare to find
New to /lit/ and went on a small book buying binge after lurking for a bit. Good thing, too. I cancelled my cable and home internet.
>Brothers Karamazov (currently reading)
>Don Quixote
>Dune
>Meditations
>The Death of Artemio Cruz
>Notes from the Underground
>The Sound of Waves
Sorry if I bought a meme book.
>>7979231
pretty good senpai, i recently red bel-ami and i really liked it
>>7994678
It's a polish version, I bought it from empik
>>7994644
Idk probably, it was 66 cents though so how could I go wrong?
>>7994923
Some might give you shit about Dune, but fuck them.
>>7981432
yeah but I can't see what they are
>>7981432
You keep your books in a draw?
>>7996720
>not keeping your books in a draw so they won't get all dusty and dirty just because you want people on the internet to look at your bookshelf
How badly did I fuck up f4milia
I've just started reading books in english. What should I read after these?
I got a 63 print of virgils work in Latin
My Latin isn't that good but I am going to learn as I go
10 eurocoins.
Bastards wanted 7,50 for the fat NAI design book.
Greedy Indians.
>>7998833
Quality photography, indeed
>>7998890
Should I also buy the books I've already read in my native language?
>>7992030
why do you have 2 copies of kizu?
>>7979748
I thought the issue was that alchemy was the devil
>>7998909
Not sure if I've understood your post, but I'm assuming that you're the Catcher/Animal Farm/Clockwork Orange guy, and your question means that you've already read a number of books from the /lit/ starter kit in a foreign language. To be honest I would consider that decision to be up to your own discretion. Translations are obviously never as good as the original, but it's the starter kit for a reason, you aren't meant to spend too much time on it. If there were any books that you read in your own language that you really liked, maybe reading them in the original would be rewarding for you. But if not, and you'd rather move onto new pastures, maybe try a Dostoyevsky (Idiot, Notes) or Joyce (Dubliners, Portrait).
>>7978555
A summer of getting turnt-up and reading Freud. Nice trips btw.
>>7999147
Can you post your whole bookshelf at the bookshelf thread? I'm interested now
>>7981707
>Leviathan
>>7984154
I understand the Pynchon one and the Pale King...
but the other crap?? what is wrong with you?
>>7998618
from left to right: good, fucked up, meh
>>7984258
At least you didnt put a pic of your face next to the book.
Also the Quixo dies at the end.
>>7999261
Oh, that makes sense. I'm the guy who asked what your camera was on the last bookshelf thread
>>7978555
Are the thoms Harris' hannibal books good to read.? Not for artistic merit or whatever but just enjoying a piece of fiction
>>7999377
I remember that.
This was just bokewhoring with a Nikon 50 1.4.
Some recent acquisitions.
Last two purchases.
>>7984111
Pretty good photography skills
>>7999801
If only he wasn't a troll
I don't know which edition of john keats poems would have been the best so i went with the penguin one.
>>8000215
>orlando furioso
>decameron
brilliant haul there. nice 1.
Should I stop buying new?
Should I start buying used only?
Great thread.
>>8000590
Why not? I buy used unless I can't find a good copy.
Yesterday i ordered i am a cat by soseki natsume and no longer human by osamu dazai
>>8000215
Gerard Manley Hopkins is seriously underrated both here (this may be the third time I've ever seen him mentioned on /lit/) and in academic circles (for reasons which will be obvious once you begin to read him).
The rest are good foundation works for a broad reading spectrum, but Hopkins is a wild genius.
>>7985200
Fucking 12/10
OP 5 of those are children's books
>>8001412
weeb
>>8000215
The Monk is a great read. Enjoy.
Judge me, /lit/.
>>7998726
i would say stoner by john williams and/or nineteen eighty-four also by george orwell and finally the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald. those are all somewhat simple books with very interesting prose and substance.
those three books were also my first books together with the great gatsby.
>>8002236
>tao lin
seriously, anon?
SERIOUSLY?
And Infinite Jest.
Soon to come is Siddartha & Lolita.
>>8002421
I want to see for myself why people have such visceral opinions about him.
>>8002421
You complain about Tao but leave Lerner out? He's a million times worse. Tao is whatever, Lerner is a complete hack fraud.
>>8002508
I just boigh it because Im from Madrid and interested in an American's recent opinion on my city. Why do you consider him a hack?
I wonder if you can guess the theme here?
I went overboard today.
>>7978555
I bought The Call of the Wild and White Fang, which one is better to read first?
>>8002796
red on top, blue on bottom.
Oppression?
>>8003314
You americans are so lucky. You can go to any bookstore/thrift store and find those books/ editions.
I have to order them on Amazon or ebay them to a P.O. Box and its expensive as fuck. I can only buy about 30 kilos of books a year
>>8003314
nice to see more people picking up richard yates
>>8003591
For $3, how could i resist?
>>7985156
BEST POST
>>7979733
I read books like I listen to music. I might listen to Bach if I want to feel like I'm transcending the worst of myself, but I might listen to Debussy if I want to feel like I'm in a field full of flowers.
Right now I'm reading Swann's Way by Proust for fiction, a collection of Yeats' poetry for - poetry, obviously, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell because it was free on Gutenberg and sounded interesting, and The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury when I want something short and a bit dark.
In other words, I read multiple books to resonate with my mood at that moment, and/or give certain parts of my brain a rest and engage new ones as I'll likely read parts of all of them throughout the day.
>>7979748
I don't think most people actually know what the Philosopher's Stone was - anywhere.
>>8004565
I would also add, those who do are likely Harry Potter fans and looked it up thanks to the book.
>>7982046
>popular
>is meme
of all the boards on 4chan, I swear to god /lit/ has the worst understanding of what a meme is
Recently started to build my own physical collection, and bought this to start a proper one, since i only had the Iliad.
I actually wanted the purple hard-covered version of the Foundation Trilogy, but it ran out on amazon, and so i bought the next best thing on impulse, and so i paid the price of not paying attention by getting an adapted-for-radio version. Which isn't that much different than the actual books, but it lacks the emotion descriptions for dialogues. Oh well.
I'll also be adding a couple more books this saturday, probably, but i won't post them here because i'm a filthy spic.
>>8000555
thanks nice trips too, I've been wanting them for a while, only heard the best things about them, feel bad they're so sorely overlooked
>>8001481
I wanted to get all the great poets so i'm getting around to everyone and trying not to discriminate, oxford publishes pretty much anyone worth their salt so it helped me find him as well, I'm looking forward to it, very excited, been on the decameron the past few days but i'll get to him next
>>8002233
Thanks m8 it looks really intriguing especially for the time written, excited.
