Post your recent purchases m80s
I'm moving soon and don't have a post box at my new location, ordered a bunch of books so i don't have to drive back home for them in a few months.
>>8145022
Cool choices. I've read none of them, but have heard really interesting things about Carlyle's book on the revolution (which I only heard about when I stumbled on Sartor Resartus), and I picked up but haven't yet read my first Stendhal book a few weeks ago (Charterhouse of Parma).
Have you started any of these? I've only talked to one person on this board who had read Carlyle on France, and he said he was totally lost without previous knowledge of France.
>>8146484
I haven't read it yet but I keep running into it so much and hearing about it that I knew i had to get it one day, it's supposed to be a landmark, I wanted to get a few more carlyle books to introduce me to his style and ideals.
I can tell you it looks "hard" from the excerpt i read from prose alone kek, it's very poetic.
The stendhal one is supposed to an unfinished masterpiece of sorts for an autobiography of himself, I'm excited to read it since he was a semi elusive figure.
I haven't started any since i'm finishing gogols collected works right now, probably my favorite of the russian authors aside from pushkin. Surprised at how definite a style he has (even in english)
>>8145028
>F. Kafka Complete Stories
Nice. Probably one of the best collections to have on hand, especially because it's not huge and unwieldy like a lot of collections tend to be. I have the same one and I love it
>>8146600
Yeah that's exactly what drew me to Carlyle's Revolution. Also ML books are gorgeous, so that helps.
What have you read of Pushkin and Gogol? I've only read Eugene Onegin and Dead Souls, of which I adored the former straight away, if only because I'm so new to poetry and Pushkin wrote it so well, and couldn't get into the latter until like 2/3 of the way through when Gogol started speaking directly to the reader and his use of the main and minor characters became more apparent, and a "point" to the story finally emerged.
>>8146615
This translation is supposed to be one of the best, even with P&V memes, they do a pretty good job, I think people should read his collected stories before they touch dead souls as it's where he defined his style and really became a somebody, has a broad range of everything, and you're able to see how creative he really was, compared to his peers.
I've read eugene onegin and also an edition of his collected stories, everymans library has some nice publications.
For nabokov it took 2 volumes to translate eugene, it's supposed to be pretty dense russian work, I guess it's one of those things that are lost in translation for the most part.
>>8145022
Building that Joyce library. Also read first O'Connor story in that collection, The Geranium. It was aight.
Chesterton is my main mane
>>8146635
Show those Tolkien books.
Frisian é frisienne, Albrecht Oerlemann
Reader's Block, David Markson
Late Whisper of a Tempest, Zosia Khare
Bog Maynooth, Eighréad Ni Haigín
The Dome of Ugliness, Sesinyi Badaev
Diaries 1898–1918, Paul Klee
Jubilee of Jubilees: and other stories, Wayne Ruding
Mercier and Camier, Beckett
Above and Below in Coordinate Systems, Helene H. W. Gerie
The Darkness, Lev Marlatt
Art and Scholasticism, Jacques Maritain
A Man Too White, György Sebestyén
Lazarus, Emer Connely
The skies curl in the midst of a reverie, Josief de Mal Ghoni
Allies and Enemies in Greek Sculpture, Warsaw Grabinski
The Dragoon, Mahoko Michaud
Letters, Sherwood Anderson
The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker
You Don't Say, Thomas Dwyer
Perpetua and the Woeful Saint, Ann Marie Mason
The Inarguable History of Maldives, Giaro Spheeris
Evil Soars Over Sasna, Vevin Sandztiat
Volmar's Apprentice, Per Gounod
Pythagorean Silence, Susan Howe
Spirit, Spirit, O Holy Spirit, Ulvener
Denver Roads, Jean Smythe
Der Mann im Jasmin, Unica Zürn
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V. Higgins
Galeotto delle Peste, Gino Bussigny
>>8146728
Show the whole thing, faggot.
>>8147073
WHYYYYYYYYYY
>>8147072
Sure thing, anon.
I have The Hobbit around here somewhere too but I can't find it right now.
>>8145022
NYRB is a great goto for something almost guaranteed to be good and generally unknown.
>>8146728
Is that the one with the voices differentiated by colours à la T50YS?
>>8147482
>Fitzgerald translation
nice
What do you think?
Pt I
Pt II
>>8147076
Hwy hwat?
Pt III
got all these for free
>>8147482
I've always wanted that edition of LOTR.
>>8147977
Are you actually multi-lingual or just pretentious?
>>8148100
Being born in a backwater place has it's benefits.
Why wouldn't I read in the tounge my mother gifted me at birth?
>>8148090
It's pretty nice, the design is beautiful. All those editions are really tasteful actually.
>>8148003
how is the Egyptian book of the dead
>>8147075
here you go senpai
>>8147504
no
>>8149072
>book is bound like the King James Bible
I hate this meme
>>8148334
Havent had a chance to really dig in, but it looked hellllla rad
>>8149669
>hella
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I'M FUCKING TRIGGERED
>>8149713
i've got hella hoes
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>>8149072
I'm fuckin jelly
Haven't posted to one of these in awhile, so pic related includes the hauls from my last three trips to the bookstore.
>>8149865
Left out the two I'm currently reading:
Tennyson - Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident
>>8145022
Get fucked, attention whore. Read the book, make a thread about it, making a thread about just owning the book is the dumbest fucking thing on the planet.
>>8149876
How is Ox Bow? I have had a copy forever but never touched it
>>8149901
Don't you have a bookshelf thread to be in.
>>8149901
>he doesn't find sick reads he's never heard of in these
Or are you too cool for that?
>>8149903
I'm about halfway through right now and enjoying it. It isn't anything jaw-dropping, but the author has a knack for building suspense. His exploration of the concept of justice (the main theme of the novel) is only midly interesting to me as he hasn't had much to say that I haven't come across before (at least not yet). For me, it is something that is best for a lighter read or maybe for a younger reader. Overall, it's definitely worth reading, just don't expect it to rank among your favorites.
>>8149915
I had a feeling
>>8146635
The more I look into the notes of that edition of Portrait (I presume it's Jeri Johnson), the more I'm disappointed and annoyed.
I don't have it with me right now, but, for example, the anecdote she provides as explanation for Stephen's dad having crippled fingers from making 'birthday presents' (i.e. bombs) for the queen is stupid, just as she's apparently not certain that the 'champagne' he talks about (also bombs) is indeed a euphemism because, in the notes, she adds a question mark, something like 'bombs?', and when Stephen says that the streets of Dublin remind him of the women in the plays of Gerhart Hauptmann, she writes that these are usually feeble and weak, or something to that effect, which is completely missing half of the allusion as there are at least two female representatives in his plays (like Bahnwärter Thiel): The good, Christian ones who are indeed feeble but also dead, and the beast-like machines/machine-like beasts that replace them.
>>8149901
This is literally a recent purchases thread. Fuck off if you don't like it.
>>8145028
>Buzzati
Excellent, a very underrated author.
bought these from an Oxfam bookshop earlier today. I might start a collection of these Oxford editions
>>8147504
you're thinking of the folio society edition
>>8152374
i love those everymans pocket poets
Recently bought:
>The Portable Jack Kerouac - edited by Jack Kerouac and Ann Charters
>Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
>Pot Stories for the Soul - edited by Paul Krassner
>Mythology by Edith Hamilton
>gonna buy Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac (which I have on hold at a used bookstore) tomorrow
Currently on loan from the library:
>The Bedside Book of Beasts by Graeme Gibson
>The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism by Gary Gach
>Norse Mythology: The Myths and Legends of the Nordic Gods by Arthur Cotterell
>Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Lots to read.
>>8145022
someone has been reading moldbug I see
>>8152959
Yeah but really you should have checked those dubdubs.
