What does /lit/ think of these editions?
pleb magnets
>>8157751
any particular reason why?
>>8157759
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECcVYk7BXhE
>>8157797
The only complaint she seems to make is that they're damaged easily, which I have to say I disagree with. I've got Moby Dick, Metamorphoses and Dante's Inferno in this format and so far I haven't had any problems with them. It might vary from book to book though to be fair
>>8157747
too expensive
>>8157747
Kitschy garbage for pseuds who use books as display pieces instead of actually reading.
Passed on that one because it was like $35, whereas this regular paperback version was $12 and it has a nice glossy portrait of Herman Melville on the inside of the front cover.
>>8157747
they're alright. i have one i bought for two quid.
>>8157797
Of course she doesn't own moby dick.
I have a couple of Austens paperback, cheap, good material, nice print. Would recommend.
>>8157747
Cheap shit that looks good online but when you get it you realize your mistake. Just go to a thrift shop and buy a used copy
For the most part, hideous and gimmicky. But some exceptions.
>>8157747
They're good, solid hardcovers that you can thrash, and they're cheap enough that it doesn't matter. The translations seem good, but you should still make comparisons between other editions. I suggest you ignore the pretentious, elitist community college students in the thread, or whoever the anons are who call these pleb magnets and kitschy, etc. Who cares what those types think? The best way to test people and discover who's decent, is to consciously put yourself in a weak position, and then to observe how you're treated. Think of the weeding out process of kooks as a blessing in disguise.
>>8157813
What translation is your Ovid?
>>8157747
Well, they're not B&N leatherbounds, but they're pretty cute and whimsical and I'm all about that.
Buy oxford or everyman or knopf, or something else, unless you're a pleb.
>>8160660
plebs buy GRRM etc
>>8160660
Norton Critical Editions (except for translated works), Hackett Classics, New York Review Book Classics, Vintage (Classics), SUNY, Clarendon, Cambridge.
>>8157747
i have these editions of david copperfield, the count of monte cristo and anna karenina and i really like them.
>>8160695
Ya this too, of course, Norton has good faust and don Quixote editions though.
Really can't go wrong with all of these as they're the same price as penguins on average.
>>8160829
I don't know about the translation of Faust personally but Nabokov has criticized Walter Arndt's translation of Eugene Onegin calling it "abominable," and I've heard other criticism of certain picks Norton has made for translations. Myself, I prefer to go with Oxford's picks because they're generally well-praised and often cheaper.
>>8157747
I've got that edition of Moby Dick. It's a well-built clothbound but the detail on the front and back covers is an iron-on decal and it will just rub off as though it were dust. I haven't even read the book yet but just through moving it from stack to stack in the few weeks i've owned it it looks incredibly weathered due to the fading decal. Like i say though, the book itself seems pretty resilient.
>>8159234
Wrong. They look better IRL. I have the War and Peace one and it's very nice.
>>8157797
Is Jane Austen the YA author of the 1800s?
>>8160829
I've read sections from all the popular Quixote translations, they're all shit.
Stop being a lazy fucktard.
>>8160695
Stop shilling SUNY - it only publishes pseudo-intellectual dross.
>>8162193
Asshurt rightist detected
>>8162232
Wrong - I'm a quality-ist. Trying to slip subpar entry into a list of eminent publishers is just sleazy. You either work for them, or have some personal connection there.
>>8162272
If you cared about quality you would be a leftist.
>>8160640
>solid
>you can thrash
I used my copy of dante's inferno to hammer in a nail the other day because I was in the shed and left the hammer upstairs in my room and the book was the nearest big heavy object. The head of the nail (which the book was being repeatedly smashed into) did some serious damage to the spine. Although the books may be sturdier than a paperback, they are not solid enough to hammer in a nail?
