Post dem stacks
Paid 28 burgerbucks for these.
16 burger bucks
>>8034300
Nice. I definitely got jewed in comparison.
What's the best translation for Ovid's Metamorphoses?
>>8034368
Humphries
Lol, you must look like the most desperate tryhards when you purchase those books together.
>>8034416
ya dude haha
>>8034398
why do you think that?
>>8034416
Ops stack is one of the least tryhard ones I've seen.
too many burgerbucks
>>8034519
Not a single crease in the spines. Well memed, sir.
>>8034561
you'll remove that ugly shakes cover right?
Still been stocking up on children's books. The Fire Cat was the first book I could read on my own.
WHERE IS EVERYONE GETTING THESE BOOK DEALS? CAN YOU HELP ME FIND SOME FUCKIN BOOK DEALS 4CHAM?
>>8034561
I picked up a 2nd edition Norton shakes for 4 bucks today. Feels good man.
>>8035568
ThriftBooks, anon.
>>8035568
Perpetual library sales. Also there are two or three good book stores in the area.
>>8035571
Nice dude.my edition was 65
>>8034368
Mandelbaum
>>8034368
melville
>>8035681
That's pretty good. I saw that one new for 100 a few months ago, but that was at a fastfood bookstore. Jack up all the prices.
why do you guys buy so many books at a time? please tell me you read them all
>>8035718
4 books a month
>>8035718
Why do you retards always ask this dumb shit. If they were posting books they got at the library you could actually ask this.
>>8035718
For me the immediacy of having I used book store so close by and close enough to some of the nation's top private colleges in humanities that I'm tempted to look at least once a week.
I've only read roughly 20 percent of my library.
>>8035718
Mine's the children's pile, most of which I'd already read before. Most of the books I buy these days are things I've already read and no want to own.
>>8035708
Yeah that's the listed price on it, so I got a decent deal.
>>8035718
Because we're capable of planning for the future like an adult.
Haven't arrived yet but I've bought:
The Decameron
The Bhagavad Gita
The Anglo-Saxon World- An Anthology
Not a stack but...
here
>>8035908
I'm a little worried about the "acceptable" tag for condition.
I hope there isn't to many stains or torn pages.
>>8035911
Seeing as it's an ex-library book, probably some stains and dog-ears or something. I would hope no writing. But definitely the stamps and lamination/stickers.
>>8035948
Sometimes I stop at dog-ears and think about what the previous reader was thinking about.
>>8035908
I'm bout ta snag yer Francis Bacon book boooi.
>>8035984
yeaaaaaaa boiiiiiiiiii
£0
Use a library you mugs
>>8034368
Dryden
Why were they working together?
>>8035988
Imagine that, I do both.
only paid 15 bucks for these
>>8038343
Was pretty excited to get ahold of this.
>>8034239
Allen Wood, my nigger!
>>8038383
Nice anon, where did you find it?
Notes from the underground
My english books will arrive next week.
>>8038343
based as fuck my man
>>8035988
>he doesn't build his own
>>8040141
AbeBooks. Paid $60 for a fine 1/1 instead of $50 for a Penguin reprint in Amazon.
>>8034607
>what are recent purchases
>what is a recent purchases thread
Keep trying to fit in, newfag
>>8035908
Did you order from them before?
I ordered a few textbooks last week and am a little worried about their condition. Some were marked as "Like New" but recent feedback about the store worries me
>>8035988
>library
That place is strictly for the homeless, the goth/emo/creep fuckers who deserve to die, and people who want to look up porn.
My efforts to become more /lit/
>>8041186
omg I just checked out that Yeats! I liked the story of the piper
>>8041186
>Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
dia dhuit mo chara
>>8041186
lit doesn't like most of those books.
>>8041186
>My efforts
low effort, m8
>>8040535
Not the person you replied to, but I prefer Dalkey's and Penguin's covers of Gaddis to Knopf's. Is the binding at least sturdy?
>>8038383
I'll probably acquire one of these editions as some point as a filthy consumer just because I love this book and this cover looks so iconic. Probably the only novel I would bother to get a second more expensive copy than the one I have.
Although the Dalkey cover looks fucking impenetrable to normies which is kind of funny.
>>8038383
I got mine for 4 dollars at a used book store. Only age has made the edges sallow. Not a mark on it save, for "L. Kash" 12/75
>>8034368
Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum!
>>8041415
You think you're better than me?
>>8034239
Good call with wood's book on Marx. He's the shit. And a super nice man.
>>8041337
Binding is sturdy and very tight. I'm almost certain this copy has never been read.
>>8041354
I love the 1st Ed cover and I'd be lying if I said it didn't influence my decision. The main reason I went with it though was the price difference between it and Penguin/Dalkey was only $10.
>>8041404
I checked all of the used book stores in my area before ordering. Had no luck.
>>8041436
Is there a work similar to Wood's Marx but on Hitler?
>>8041455
>I checked all of the used book stores in my area before ordering.
I just had an extreme amount of luck. In my area there are two great bookstores, i got a hardcover aFoHO for 10, same edition of JR you got for 4, mint CG for 4. Sadly had to buy the Dalkey Recognitions for full price.
>>8041503
I also found a 1st Ed. Frolic for $10 when I was looking. That was the only Gaddis I came across though.
>>8041493
fuck off. jesus christ dude.
>>8041186
Basic.
>>8041517
What did I do?
>>8041697
I'm not sure if your point is "Marx is as bad as Hitler!" or if you have no point, but either way you are an idiot.
>>8041709
I'm looking for a good book on Hitler and I liked Wood's biographical style. Is it a crime to read about Hitler?
>>8041721
You haven't read wood. He is a philosopher, not a biographer.
>>8041746
I read wood every morning. By Wood's biographical style I mean a book that explains Hitler's philosophy, because I am interested in the thoughts of Hitler but I don't care so much about other biographical aspects or demonization.
>>8041808
you aren't very good at trolling dude. ya just look like an idiot.
>>8041814
I'm not trolling, you are. I want a good book on Hitler than is similar to Wood's Karl Marx.
>>8041834
you are trolling, you haven't read wood, and there is no such thing, as you know, for hitler was not a philosopher or interesting thinker.
>>8034239
Last batch I bought in November, have finished all except Miles's biography.
>>8041862
I read wood and you are obviously brainwashed into thinking Hitler wasn't a wise thinker and had great original ideas.
Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnSHToaGRF8
Both Karl Marx and Hitler are good people.
>>8041885
go back to your containment board.
>>8041896
Point me to the containment board for individualist anarchists. Wait... this is the board for that. You can like people from different ideologies you know?
>>8041910
/pol/ is prbly the right place for wee little edgelords. i think it might be 18+ though.
>>8041925
Stop being a faggot.
Not recent but I think it's the best I've got in my collection.
>>8041925
Nothing edgy about liking people, is there? I don't demonize ideologies for certain fanatics that share them and I don't demonize those fanatics but I don't condone actions. Do you hate "bad" people? I hate bad actions, which are easier to understand and condemn than an entire complex multiorganism that is influenced by its also complex genetics and complex environment.
>>8041950
I guess at least you got good Homer trannys.
>>8041709
It's about the author's writing style, not about similarity of subject
>>8042017
stop.
No bully pls
Summer meme stack. About $40 for all of 'em. Right are books I've already started, left is what's next.
>>8036190
>fancy hardcover edition of the communist manifesto
bourgeoisie scum, proles like I only read unformatted .txts
I got A Streetcar Named Desire for 79 cents today.
>>8042139
I got a Streetcar Named desire for 0 cents today. I asked my mom if I could keep her copy of the book so I can one-up some anonymous on a website, and she said yes.
>>8041884
I absolutely adore those SF Masterworks editions. Did you enjoy the forever war? Can never decide whether to buy a copy
>>8042237
Cool anon. Enjoy it.
Not sure why you're upset though.
>>8035549
Is English your second language?
>>8042063
One of the more interesting stacks I've seen here. Got the same VanderMeer a while ago but haven't got to it yet, and actually just picked up Dynamite last week.
>>8042551
No, why? The Japanese books?
>>8042575
>>8042575
Can you get it a little hard and post it?
Summer reading
>>8042504
I'm not. I'm not even upset at you, I just wanted to make a joke.
>>8042771
Oh ok. We can be friends if you want. I liked your joke btw.
>>8034300
>that one upside down spine
kill yourself please
Less than 20 bucks
>>8042956
Mushrooms why.
>>8042975
I love mycology
>>8042995
Since you like mushrooms, it might be worth asking. Is any of McKenna's work apart from True Hallucinations good? I'm thinking about reading Food of the Gods
>>8042956
Flavorwire had a list on magic/mystical books a few weeks ago.
>>8043006
It's not very good. You can just read what food of the gods is about and that's it. Books that are about drugs usually are bad. If you are just interested in hearing some hippie ramble about how psychedelics are cool and stuff then it's okay but you might as well just eat the drugs your own self.
>>8043024
Doors of Perception was aight
>>8043006
I mean, I like all kinds of mushrooms, not just magic mushrooms. Food of the Gods is like his most well known but I think True Hallucinations has the best story and legend. I'd recommend the Invisible Landscape. He doesn't just write about mushrooms and really wasn't even that big of an authority on them. If you want a good book about magic mushrooms read Paul Stamets' Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World and really anything by Stamets if you like mushrooms in general
>>8043024
Untrue. Some of the best works of art and literature were inspired by drugs. It's probably true that there is a vast number of bad books on drugs but that is probably just because drugs and so interesting to lots of different kinds of people for different reasons and a lot try to write in a popular way and appeal to the layman. Shulgin's PIHKAL is still one of the best books written by a scientist I have read (the biography portion).
>>8043046
The Doors of Perception should be required reading even if you aren't interested in taking drugs, though it will probably make you at the very least curious about mescaline when you're done. You should read Heaven and Hell too
>>8043067
McKenna(s) had a wealth of interesting things to say about many topics unrelated to drugs such as artificial intelligence, the internet, and so much else.
>>8034239
I read that Saramago title and was really disappointed by it. It was my first (and so far last) by him, and after a lot of deliberation it had seemed to me to be a good starting point. Maybe someone has better perspective on his writing, but that was my experience for what it's worth OP
>>8043087
Saved your picture for a future reference of good shit I need to read. You sir, are a cool fucking dude.
>>8043087
I didn't say that books that are inspired by drugs are bad but books that are just about the psychedelic experience or dude drugs lmao tend to suck. Fear and Loathing is okay but the movie is literally a scene-by-scene recreation of the novel and visually trippy so you might as well just watch that. Reading trip reports is only interesting if you don't trip. Just go to WSMFP and rage your tits off or something instead.
Also Tom Wolfe is fucking boring and other than learning how suspicious it is that Ken Keysey was a CIA lab rat and then just happened to have a very difficult to make drug coming out of his ass, neutering the hippie movement shortly after the US govt discovered that LSD makes soldiers into giggling idiots the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is so ungodly fucking boring. He can suck the energy out of any scene I swear to Chris.
>>8043157
I started Bonfire of the Vanities years ago and could never get through it.
>>8043115
Probably the worst saramago to read as your overture into his works.
>>8043323
I like Blindness but the final chapter was bad.
>>8043323
I would hope so. I had wanted to start with him early in his career, despite the title not being well known, was part of my thinking in choosing it. Thanks anon, maybe I'll try him again before too long.
>>8043341
The first book by him I read was The Double. Then I read Blindness and then Death with Interruptions. By that time I was conditioned to his style, so I became impervious to his tendency to leaving the reader wanting more or unsatisfied
>>8035568
There was a used book store right next to where I worked that was actually a money laundering front, I guess for drug dealers. All of their books were just a few bucks each, but they'd cook the books to make it look like they sold them for much more. I got most of Cormac McCarthy's stuff for about $15.
>>8042577
That and
>still been
>>8042085
>fancy
it was cheaper than any of the other books, also I know nothing about marx, was just interested
>>8042325
Go on and read it, totally worth it
>>8041885
>This video is not available in your country.
Should've figured a positive video about Hitler would be blocked in Israel. Fucking hilarious.
>>8035718
I mostly shop in used bookstores. Their stock doesn't turn over that fast, so it's more efficient in terms of overall time to visit a store once a year and buy 12 books than to visit every month and buy 1 book.
>>8040663
This is probably just bait but libraries are really good for getting access to books that are interesting tier but you really want to just read once. Nonfiction, commentary on other books, mysteries, genre fic, reference books and lavish art books where you just want to look at the pictures. Example: I'll buy Don Quixote because that's a book I want for keeps, but I'll go to the lib and borrow Nabokov's Lectures on Don Quixote because that's the kind of thing I only need to read once.
Also Interlibrary Loan is sometimes the best way to get access to certain rare material that is difficult to find/buy.
>>8044021
That might just be a Southernism showing. I couldn't tell you what's wrong with it.
>>8042633
What's in The Essential Kafka? It looks thicker than the usual collection.
The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
I don't think it can hold up to the movie though, it pretty much gives the surprise away right at the beginning.
>>8046887
On rewatching the movie, when is the earliest you think you can "know".
>>8046837
The castle, the trial, the metamorphosis, his letter to his father and some other short stories
>>8046910
The first time I watched it, I didn't realize until the end.
On rewatching though, there are hints like how he doesn't remember which tie he knit, there's also one scene after the ingénieure got buried that is pretty explicit but went over my head the first time I watched it. He shows up to dinner and tells his wife he got buried alive even though he didn't.
>>8038349
>let me put this generic title-less hardcover here- Perfect!
