How's this for $14.50? I feel like I robbed the place.
>don dellillo
Is this a joke?
Also got these but they're all gifts.
>>8207340
>The Recognitions
I feel like this book is hard to find in the UK but damn good job, Mason & Dixon is a fun ride. Anyway I recently got:
America-Franz Kafka
Les Miserables-Victor Hugo(currently reading)
The Engineer of Human Souls-Josef Skvoresky
Skylark-Dezso Kosztolányi
Life and Fate-Vassily Grossman
God Emperor of Dune-Frank Herbert
Freedom-Jonathan Franzen
The Black Prince Iris Murdoch
Got all that for about £18 or so, I'm looking forward to reading America since it's the only Kafka I have left and seeing the influence Dickens supposedly had on it should be interesting since I just got done re-reading Great Expectations. As for Les Miserables I'm liking it a lot so far, you can easily see the influence it had on Dostoyevsky from a spiritual perspective.
>>8207346
>rand
>absolutelydisgusting.jpeg
>>8207346
>someone gave you these beat-up books as a giftlikely story
>>8207340
Recently got "The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works" on Kindle for £1, but I haven't started it and I'm not sure if the translations will be good or not.
>>8207364
I'm giving them as gifts. Frost is for someone who barely reads but likes Frost's poems. I didn't want to waste money on a really nice edition when it will eventually wind up on the bottom shelf of a coffee table. The Carroll and Barrow books are both in excellent condition. The Rands are a bit beat up but not too badly and I picked them up pretty cheap.
>>8207354
It is pretty hard to find here, too. I've been looking for it for months. Unfortunately, I still haven't found a hardcover but that Penguin edition was only $0.50 so I couldn't pass it up.
>>8207415
Cheapest I've been able to find it is for £15-£20 but I might just wait until next time I go to America and hopefully find it cheap enough
>>8207374
>I'm giving them as gifts.
>I didn't want to waste money on a really nice edition when it will eventually wind up on the bottom shelf of a coffee table.
this is not how gift-giving works
Amazon is having a NYT best sellers sale right now. Anything worth grabbing? I'm considering David and Goliath, but not much else strikes out at me.
https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_475432942_2?ie=UTF8&node=7533915011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-top-1&pf_rd_r=56C74CA1CJVBTGF9TVZ2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=2531761882&pf_rd_i=154606011
>>8207443
spooked
>>8207443
Sure it is. This copy is in good shape other than the dust jacket. He probably won't ever read more than the few poems he already knows by heart, and he doesn't collect books at all so he won't even care about the dust jacket. It is just a random gift for someone who I thought of when I saw the book, not a birthday or Christmas gift. You don't have to blow lots of money to make a nice, thoughtful gift.
>>8207466
Gladwell is an entertaining writer, so maybe him? I haven't read David and Goliath, but I'm sure it can't be much too different from his other books.
>>8207340
Where do you buy these for so cheap?
>>8207489
Thanks! Do you know if Amazon allows you to buy multiple Kindle books at the same time? I don't want my bank freaking out over three or four consecutive Amazon charges.
>>8207490
Library store. They have non-library books that were donated for the sale and most had never even been read from the looks of them. Middle C, Tipperary, and Lie Down in Darkness were all ex-library books but the stickers came off fairly easily (you can see the residue on Darkness).
Hardcovers are $1 and paperbacks are $0.50.
They have some that are priced a little differently. I almost purchased a complete Harvard Classics collection in excellent condition for $45 but figured I didn't really need it.
>>8207492
Er, you can add them to you cart and buy them all together with one click. I think it registers each purchase individually though, I'm not entirely sure.
>>8207340
I don't believe you, let's see that timestamped receipt bitch boy.
>>8207498
Is this a physical place or a website?
>>8207498
Whoag. I have a library store near my local library with the same pricing method. Is that a common thing near most libraries? I've only been to the one near my house.
>>8207340
I don't believe you desu
>>8207510
Figure I'd post my own recent purchases. Got these for $4.50 all together. Unfortunately the store is only open a couple hours a week, three on Thursday, three and Saturday; I haven't been able to go there as much as I would like.
>>8207501
Apparently, One-Click is turned on for Kindle purchases, so I have to buy a giftcard to then use on the site.
>>8207509
Physical place.
>>8207504
>>8207514
Who keeps receipts? I don't know why you wouldn't believe me, you can see that the library sticker was removed from one of those books and if I bothered to go take pics of the inside, you'd see the "withdrawn" markings on three of the books. If you live in a good sized city, go check the main branch of your library. I bet they have something like this.
>>8207510
>>8207535
I've seen it everywhere I've ever looked. I even found one in a county of <10,000 people but it was an infrequent sale. The one in Tucson operates like yours except I think it isn't even every week. The one where I am now has a permanent store that is open every day. At least half of the books are donated and not withdrawn books.
>>8207564
I use receipts as bookmarks and if you recently purchased them that shit would be around somewhere, especially if your intent was to brag about your bargains on the internet.
Nope. You're bullshit.
>>8207583
Two reasons why this post is stupid:
Places that use Square to run cards have an option of "no receipt."
Even when I go places that have receipts, I tell the cashier to throw it away for me 100% of the time.
Easy, screencap your credit card statement without blotting out certain pertinent details.
>>8207504
lol @ notion of bookstore having timestamped receipts and not just a pencil & notepad
>>8207535
The ethics was a good read.
Got these earlier today, real excited to go through them.
>>8207340
You did. I fucking love my library's bookstore,too. Get a pile for cheap, check them out, give back anything that bores you.
>>8207415
I've seen the Dalkey Archive paperback of it in several stores about a month ago. JR is impossible to find anywhere unless you get lucky though.
>>8207659
Is that a Latin edition of Asterix?
>>8207340
They robbed you, you could have gotten all of these books as e books for practically nothing. E-reading also would help you save space, read in the dark, increase font size to largest size to avoid and prevent eye problems, and connect to the internet so that you can browse four (4) chan allowing you to have elevated discourse discussion with some fellow mates and laugh at all the plebians that make and contribute to bookshelf threads.
>>8207746
lol, pleb. e-reading is for old ladies with vision problems and men who want to read Danielle Steel books.
>>8207346
nice lewis carroll set
my fucking used book store is "historically significant" and located in an affluent beach town... 14.50 would probably get me one of those books.
>>8207483
>It is just a random gift for someone who I thought of when I saw the book, not a birthday or Christmas gift
the only legitimate justification you've said so far, everything else is pure autism
>>8207999
i use an ereader but only because i live in a rural area and we dont have any booksores. nearest one is barnes and noble 25 miles away but its 85% toys and YA
>>8207716
Indeed it is: Asterix among the Goths in Latin, for 50 cents. I couldn't resist.
>>8207564
>Tucson
Nice! I wonder if I've ever seen u at one of those sales. Get all my books there as well.
0 bucks
Whattup
>tfw already read one of these
>>8207443
depends on who you're gifting you poopscooter
guys help i think i just spent $50 CAD ironically unironicaly, but like for real
>>8208253
let me have the one you've read
What i am for, boys?
>>8208483
I really liked The Tempest and its my first copy, so no can do friendo
>>8208577
wasn't all of this shit retconned or something?
>>8208480
i hope you are rich and you don't seriously intend on reading these books cuz if you're not rich then you just dropped a lot of dosh on complete trash
>>8207342
What's wrong with Delillo, you galactic faggot.
>>8208577
I'd say something snarky like "a lifetime of virginity" but your tedious "culture" is now mainstream and there are attractive females crawling over each other to prove they're the most "nerdy lol sci-fi geek on the planey looool".
So I guess I should be saying "enjoy your mountains of pussy thanks to your dedication to a fandom that is now, for some reason, socially acceptable".
