Recent Purchases Thread.
Just returned from the bookstore. How long should it take me to get through all of this?
>>8098453
The rest of your life.Kill yourself for making this thread, my man.
>>8098453
Lord of the Flies and Bell Jar should each take you about two sittings to read. They're light but engrossing.
The Luminaries took me a month-long slog to finish, and I'm still not convinced it was worth it.
I've recently become enamoured with the idea of Dickinson. I read through Fear and Loathing in one sitting and am currently rereading La vida breve.
>>8098477
Very nice handwriting anon.
i just bought a paperback copy of meditations by marcus aurelius for $4 and under the store-put tag i can see the suggested retail price of $3 lol
>>8098453
The Bell Jar is deceptively short, that edition has a long ass forward and follows up with an "about the author" at the end.
It's very good though, i wish Sylvia Plath would have chosen a second novel instead of suicide.
>>8098594
Happened to me the other day.
>buy Nietzsche poem collection
>pay equivalent of 15 burgerbucks
>take sticker off the back
>€ [D] 5,00
>I could be in Germany in literally 20 mins by foot
shitty meme tbqh
How pleb am I, /lit/?
>>8098453
what the fuck man
is that edition of the secret garden made of plastic?
>>8099521
It's rubber actually. Paper quality is good though.
>>8099514
Plebian, all too plebian.
>>8099540
*tips fedora*
>>8098453
From left to right.
Nieve de Primavera (Spring Snow)- Y. Mishima
Exiles- James Joyce
Crítica del Discernimiento (Critique of Judgement)- Kant
Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid(first edition)- Malcolm Lowry
The Recognitions- William Gaddis
Infinite Jest- DFW (The only one I haven't read from the "meme trilogy")
>>8099590
>literal meme chart
1 penny + $3 shipping off alibris.
pretty excited
>>8099578
I wasn't very satisfied with that edition of IJ personally and it's not just because Dave Eggers is an opportunist turncoat fuck. The fact that it's paperback and frilly makes flipping back and forth between text and notes a bit of a hassle, although I do prefer the end note format rather than having them on the pages on which they appear because the longer notes interrupt my flow.
>>8099590
>no tao lin
>no haouse of leaves
lol
>>8100672
house of leaves isn't litcore
>>8098453
The Luminaries!
never thought I'd see that on /lit
enjoy
GIVE ME THAT MISHIMA REEEEEEEEE
>>8100672
Those arent even on the top 100 chart you dingus
>>8098453
Bell Jar is really fantastic. Are you depressed?
>>8098477
I read through fear and loathing in one night when I was 16 and again the next day . But that's an appropriate age for something like that.. right??
>>8101431
Automatically patrish if you're actually fluent in all those languages.I despise Nooteboom with a passion, though.
The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann
Two Case histories: »Rattenmann« / »Wolfsmann« by Sigmund Freud
The Grapes of Wrath
No Longer Human
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy Malone Dies the Unnamable
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
A Passage to India
Kokoro
Red Cavalry by Isaak Babel
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
>>8101690
Not fluent, but trying to get there.
Haven't read anything by Nootenboom yet, and usually not a fan of Dutch lit, but I'll try it.
>>8101431
Cees Nooteboom is god tier. Really enjoyed his other books too. btw good job on dutch english french and german
