recent purchases.
hate/rate/masterbate
Almost all of these just arrived today. Feels Goodman.
>>8214405
I really enjoyed The Left Hand of Darkness. I hope you like it too, OP.
>>8214777
naomi klein is a hack
>>8214924
Left Hand of Darkness is dope.
I actually didn't like it much when I first read it though. I expected a lot more about the sexuality of the natives, but really it was just a comfy as fuck book about feudal society mixed with mysticism. Over the years I have come to love it.
>>8214931
Now ya tell me
>>8214763
where to cop book at the bottom??
>>8214945
I actually had to ask the store to order it in
>>8214943
no logo is probably her most legitimate/insightful work though a lot of the stuff shepoints out probably seems a bit cliche now. shock doctrine and onwarsd is all drivel
Mine
>>8214405
Your bottom books brought me flashbacks to Victorian lit class. Though we read Jude instead of Madding Crowd.
Hope you enjoy them OP. I loved North and South.
>>8215022
nice Queneau
>>8214943
Now you get to find out how shitty she is the hard way like I did.
>>8215022
Echoing the other guy, I really hope you enjoy Zazie. Get back to me on Ozick's essays; I really liked The Shawl. Aside from that, the rest of the stack looks like stuff I'd like to get to eventually.
>>8214763
guarenteed replies
>>8214405
>>8215353
>ML Ulysses
Based. I have the green cloth one. 1961 printing?
>>8215368
How did you date yours?
>>8215398
where do you guys buy cheap books?
>>8215353
Why is your mattress cover on the underside of your mattress?
>>8215428
Guess mine is 46 then because the latest date on it is the 1946 Nora copyright
Does anybody else prefer to buy new books to avoid the almost invariable eventuality that you will find crusties of an organic origin between the pages of used books?
>>8215560
I've been able to find use books in almost brand new condition but I get what you mean, for example I just bought Les Miserables last week and while it's absolutely perfect on the inside the spine has a crease down it and the cover is a little beat up but otherwise in pretty good condition.
My recent purchases:
Les Miserables-Victory Hugo(reading now)
Skylar-Dezso Kosztolányi
The Engineer of Human Souls-Josef Škvorecký
God Emperor of Dune-Frank Herbert
Life and Fate-Vassily Grossman
Which do I read next?
>>8214405
>hate/rate/masterbate
can i do all three at the same time?
>>8215641
Oh right, I forgot Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
I like to pick used up each years "best american" series. I'm looking forward to grabbing this years.
>>8215644
Self hatred is inextricable from masturbation, in my experience. Critique the porn while you're at it and it should be fairly easy.
>>8214763
>bottom book
For the love of God almighty, why? Do you hate me? Do you hate literature? Why did you fund this?
Small haul from about two days ago.
>>8215684
Its okay. We all have books we regret purchasing
>>8215684
>Poe
Absolutely patrician, good choice.
>>8215667
>Self hatred is inextricable from masturbation
catholic spotted
>>8215747
Well, I went to catholic schools but they were sort of more anglican really. It was wishy washy weak catholicism.
My parents are non religious. I consider myself agnostic.
So I don't know where it comes from exactly.
>>8214777
Nice purchase with the Kapuscinski. Currently reading Travels With Herodotus and really enjoying it.
>>8215026
Good luck. What's the Oxford book about comic verse like?
>>8214405
>LeGuin
>>8215026
>Symposium
I love fucking children too, anon.
>>8216563
your a fag loo l
On mobile, and in a hospital, but I'm finally getting back into pleasure reading
>Remains of the day
> never let me go
>Empire of things
>Patience (new clowes graphic novel)
>Twain's complete short stories
>Stoner
>confessions of a mask
>Saki's collected short stories
>>8215022
Malcolm X's was pretty good desu
>>8215439
look up library sales in your area
there's probably a used book store of regular bookstore with a used section around you, prices are usually higher than library sales or looking online, but for the latter you can check out the quality
>>8215442
What kind of fucking question is that you bitch.
>>8216860
I revealed you for what you are, by LeGuin's rules you should go away.
>>8217030
I don't get it
$12 total, from a local thrift store
>>8218789
p bad
>>8218789
> Dizzy Gillespie
My man
>>8215684
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Hunter S. Thompson
A person I would smoke weed with and talk books
Got these today. Rate my meme books, m8ys.
>>8216921
nice man
>>8219263
why can't other countries get covers right like australia does?
Yes, good goy. Keep giving your money to the jews instead of using the library.
I swear you niggas are in the same level as the booktuber girls you hate so much.
>>8219289
i bet you own less than 200 books
>>8219263
Is Hadji Murad in top book?
>>8219289
We'll see who's laughing when the Internet goes down during an apocalypse driven by an extraterrestrial species and I still have these books. I'll give you a hint on which of us will be laughing: neither, because we will be shit scared and you will be on even ground with a verbose autist.
>>8219360
haha that is funny how you twisted it in the end so as not to offend him
let me remind you though that I, a third party, will be the one who's laughing, since my Kindle has a battery that holds for weeks, or even months.
>>8219263
off to the south pole with you you fucking penguin lover
What should I read first?
>>8219844
nostromo
Do you anons who buy books in bulk usually get around to reading all of them?
If I buy a batch of more than 1 or 2 they go on the shelf, and then I wind up buying another batch after finishing one of them and the cycle renews.
I've been slowly slugging through the massive backlog I've created for myself and now I try to limit myself to one fiction and one non-fiction at a time. I always feel really pretentious having a bookshelf full of books I haven't read yet though.
>>8219844
milton
also, kokoro is motional teenager shite. only weebs pretend to like it
>>8219844
oblomov, then milton, burn the rest
>>8218893
Dude I would love to do that w u and I'm not even that guy you replied to
Bought the bodysurfers by robert drewe and picnic at hanging rock today. Been trying to read more Australian prose (read almost nothing but poetry for last six months). Anyone have good Australian novels to suggest?
>>8219263
> red spine Penguin edition of Master & Margarita
I noticed they started doing these recently. They look very tantalising.
>>8218898
You need to mind your own business.
Noob status with Chandler
The Big Sleep is fuckin great.
>>8223061
yeah, i just finished it the other day. there's no need to read any other crime noir author IMO
>>8214405
mirin' that 80s edition of left hand of darkness
>>8223061
I'm pretty sure The Big Sleep was a huge influence to the Cohen brothers for The Big Lewbowski. It's even in the name
>>8219320
Nope.
>The two old men
>How much land does a man need?
>The forged coupon
>Master and workman
>Alyosha pot
>The death of Ivan Ilyich
>>8219729
>not buying 500 page penguin classics for $12
alrighty then
Kinda scattershot buying while on vacation
>>8223407
>buying while on vacation
I did that once, then I got to the airport and all my suitcases were way over the weight limit. Had to pay like $50 for the fee.
>>8223436
I was very concerned about that. Bag was heavy af but I did it.
>>8223061
Ive been reading Chandler lately, his first four novels so far, and The Big Sleep has been my least favorite and they've only gotten better as I've been reading them. Funny thing is I had the opposite experience with Hammet, while I enjoyed all of his novels, his first one Red Harvest was his best imo.
Anyway, a couple I picked up the other day.
>>8214405
Where'd you cop that Notes m8?
>>8215641
>Victory Hugo
Sounds like a pokemon desu
>>8219878
I've read maybe 1/15th of the books I've bought. I also have five different versions of Les Mis, but that's a different problem.
>>8223698
>That art of war
you fucked up is what you did
>>8223841
>Eliot
>Steiner
fucking A man
If you can read French, try Boutang (there's a dialog with Steiner on Antigone/Abraham).
>>8223407
Court of the Red Tsar is an excellent biography
>>8219878
As long as you're getting good books that you'll actually read, don't worry about it. I have books that I bought half a year ago that I haven't read, and others that I read as soon as I got them. My list of to be read books is ever-growing, but since I know that I will get through them eventually I don't worry about it.
