Are any book sites running decent Black Friday deals?
what did you fags get? bought milton, byron, dumas. saved 34$
>>7396062
>purchasing books that are in the public domain
Stay pleb, friendo
>>7396082
>poorfags
>>7396082
>this post
>>7396082
>purchasing any book
>>7396116
>purchasing books on black friday
>not poorfag
>>7396062
Penguin Hardcover Classics Moby Dick and someCriterion Blu-Rays (the Zatoichi set and Kuroneko).[\spoiler]
>>7396256
Is it this one that you bought, anon?
Be warned, the white parts come off really easily. Especially on the back.
Other than that, pretty good quality.
Not many are worth it; a few quid off at most.
>>7395955
Amazon: Coupon code: "HOLIDAY30"
https://www.reddit.com/r/bookclub/comments/3ucfyp/black_friday_take_30_off_any_printed_book_on/
>>7396433
The code can only be used once, but it applies to box sets too. Time to get In Search of Lost Time
20% off Thirftbooks
Do any gay porn sites have deals today?
What did you guys get today? pic related is my haul
>>7396493
Anon, can you take a picture of the front cover of American Psycho. I bought a copy off Amazon and want to see if we've got the same one.
>>7396496
sure thing bud, hopefully I dont fuck up and post it upside down again
>>7396499
Thanks anon, looks like we've got the same one.
>>7396502
o-oh my anon, should we start a two man bookclub? :3
>>7396503
Sure thing pham, we've even got the same F451 edition.
>>7396512
But do we have the same cat?
>>7396520
>tfw not responsible enough to own a pet
Can barely pay for food/essentials for myself, let alone another living being.
>>7396525
Ah that sucks m8. Im sure you'll make more money one day, I believe in you anon!
Which book are you gunna read first tho?
>>7396531
Thanks for believing in me.
I've already read F451, so I'm just waiting on American Psycho to arrive. I live in Australia so it takes about 2 weeks to get here.
Loved the movie, hoping I'll love the book just as much.
>>7396535
nice nice, stralia' has always seemed like a cool place to live; I used to follow the skateboarding scene over there heavily
Well in a couple weeks you can expect a thread about American psycho and we can discuss it then
>>7396553
Nice, should be fun!
>>7396553
>stralia' has always seemed like a cool place to live
it's not that good
>>7396473
Where'd you get that from? I only see the 10% sale.
>>7396433
thats a troll, that code is for barnes and noble, i wish it was for amazon tho, they have lower base prices
I technically didn't do any book shopping today, but I did get a ton of books I had already ordered in the mail today.
>>7398025
Meant in response to >>7396493
Also these
>>7398033
and these
>>7398039
And finally, these. The poor mailman had to lug a tub of packages up the stairs for me.
>>7398033
I gotta ask: how did you hear about that Ex Libris book? I saw it recommended on a blog but the first few pages I read in store sounded abysmal.
>>7398056
I read it nearly four years ago and remember enjoying it, but I can't remember much about why, other than that it was as comforting as books about books tend to be. Especially when all I had back then was /lit/ for book conversation.
I just reread the preface and didn't find it abysmal, though. She doesn't have that disgusting pretentiousness that Nancy Pearl has for all those "Book Lust" series; I can't stand them. Fadiman just seems to love reading and grew up in a family of literature types surrounded by books.
You made me want to go through it again--I remember liking the "My Odd Shelf" essay:
"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner. George Orwell's Odd Shelf held a collection of bound sets of ladies' magazines from the 1860s, which he liked to read in his bathtub. Philip Larkin had an especially capacious Odd Shelf crammed with pornography, with an emphasis on spanking. Vice Admiral James Stockdale, having heard that Frederick the Great had never embarked on a campaign without his copy of The Encheiridion, brought to Vietnam the complete works of Epictetus, whose Stoic philosophy was to sustain him through eight years as a prisoner of war." Relatable anecdotes about books interspersed with literary trivia, a look at how a life surrounded by family who weren't functionally illiterate might be.
If you didn't want to read Fadiman, but still liked the idea of this kind of personal-essays-about-books, you might try to see if Michael Dirda is more your type. He's my favorite for the "genre".
>>7398141
You couldn't really consider her a poseur "bookworm XD" type. Not like reddit-tier, or whatever. She might not be an academic per se, but she went to Harvard, teaches with Yale, had authors for parents. It'd be hard to not be well-read at that point.
All those adjectives probably apply to her, but I don't think any of them are necessarily negative. Quirky when you're vying for attention is different from genuine dedication to off-kilter interests. Her "Odd Books" shelf is several dozen on polar exploration, which she loved enough to work as a mountaineering instructor and to travel to the Arctic for writing assignments.
I just reread "Marrying Books" again too--there are some "whimsy" bits that fall flat, like hoping for the death of an interior decorator who arranged books by color/size. Other bits I like: "We kept my copy of Middlemarch, read at eighteen, in which were registered my nascent attempts at literary criticism (page 37: "Grrr"; page 261: "Bullshit"; page 294: "Yccch")". It's nice to hear about the authors who've sorted their books by nationality/chronologically within that (that's how I do it), and to read about someone else having the trouble of what to do with multiple copies when you merge your collections. She writes nicely, too.
I'm not sure who you'd mistake her for, but there's probably a ton of YA-blogger-type books about books like that out there. Haven't read anything else from her though.
>>7398203
>She might not be an academic per se
>All those adjectives probably apply to her
Then she's shit.
>I don't think any of them are necessarily negative.
Fuck off
>>7396493
Wouldn't take those for two bucks 2bh. Maybe the Donkey hoe.
>>7398431
What's negative about sentimentality?
Verso has 50 percent off all their books until the end of the year. Unfortunately the Ego and its Own is out of stock.
>>7398438
I know, opinions right?
>>7396439
30% off maxes out at $10 off for the amazon coupon.
Proust was my first thought as well. I was bummed when I put it on my wish list at $55 only to see it jump to $60+ a few weeks later.
>>7396314
It's Penguin, what did you expect?
>>7398524
Hm, yeah I guess. I wasn't expecting it to fade so quickly from just holding it.
Hopefully the B&N Leatherbound classics I've ordered don't do anything similar.
>>7398545
>B&N Leatherbound classics
LOL
>>7398554
W-why is that funny.
Did I make a mistake?
>>7398556
It's again a gaudy and cheap way of getting "something nice" without knowing better.
It still features pages with words on them so there's nothing wrong there, it's just the fact that it's pleb flypaper that it gets flak.
>>7398561
Oh, I see.
>>7398561
And hopefully they fuck up the printing less than they do with their paperbacks. I've gotten a few defective books from them before, never again.
