Recent Purchases thread

>>8349252
I'm fully aware that those are all classics and thus highly unoriginal, but I was happy enough to find books in English, not a common sight in used bookstores here.
Don't refrain from showing more exciting findings

Where's "here"? Romania? Poland? What?

>>8349252
found all these folio society books for $4 each at a used books store. I just bought "Great Short Stories" though I was tempted to also buy the poetry anthology.

>>8349335
Woah. I'm jealous I'd never be able to find any used folio's where I live in Australia.

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>>8349252
>mfw some cheap ass Bonfire of Vanities' first edition tickled through my hands

>>8349326
France. I'm quite far from major cities atm

>>8349335
Jealous. "Great Short Stories" by who? Is that an anthology?

>>8349347
Why didn't you buy it?

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>>8349368
>Why didn't you buy it?

I'm a NEET, mang. My finances are quite dicier.

>>8349480
Not even a few dollars for a book? Damn
You could even sell it and make a profit I guess

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>>8349252

>>8349578
Solid collection, though I'm not too fond of how the cover material Mariner uses for their Calvinos feels in the hand. Kind of plastic, like I can't get a grip on the gloss.

Would you mind telling me about the 'A Traditionalist Confronts Fascism' book? I don't recognise it, thought going by the title seems interesting if a little forthright.

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Got these today about 22 dollars.

>>8349607

It's a Julius Evola book.

>>8349611

Did he confront fascism?

>>8349616

He got blown up by it.

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>>8349610
The big one is against the day.

Got these last week about 24. I like to binge buy once every 6 months or so. I started reading v already. Probably the beetle leg next but I'm still undecided.

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>>8349636

>>8349626
Do you like Vollmann? I've never read his work, but I read an article criticizing him and I must admit some of the passages they included were trite and bad.

>>8349623
All's well that ends well

>>8349252
Tender Is The Night is wonderful. Read it back in June. The dinner party scene at the Diver's home is still in my mind. Some line about the entire room rising with conviviality I think. Good luck tackling those books, OP.

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Overspent on Cardinal's Outsider Art but those little black penguin books are fantastic

>>8349658
This will be my first vollmann experience when I get around to reading it.

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Not really what you guys would consider /lit/ but I was in the mood for some spooks (not the stirner kind)

>>8349368
The great short stories is an anthology. Russian (Pushkin, and the usuals), French, Irish, English, Japanese short stories.

It's a beautiful book. I am really wishing I snagged the anthology of poetry.

>>8349636
Great, now I don't feel like the only one who's read Dorothy Baker. Did you read anything else by her before getting it. I gotta admit, I've kept holding off buying Young Man with a Horn.

>>8349610
>>8349626
>I only buy and possibly but likely don't read /lit/ memes

pathetic

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Got:
Journey round my skull by Frigyes Karinthy

Grimace by Frigyes Karinthy

Selected poems and short stories by Frigyes Karinthy

Please Sir! by Frigyes Karinthy

Füves könyv(book of grass/weeds) by Sándor Weöres

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

And a Bible

Pretty good for 43€ (48$)

What do you think /lit/

>>8350714
Nah I'm way to poor to buy something and not use it. And I love the pynchmeister and his goofs and gags and descriptions of rambunctious behavior. I can't get enough.

>>8350714

They're decorative.

>>8349662
Thanks, I really wanted to read some Fitzgerald, this will be my first actually (no bully pls)

>>8349827
>Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Good choice.

>>8351183
>Sándor Weöres
I only now him as an author of children's poems, I'd be interested in his serious works.

bojler eladó

>>8352916
*know

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Been wanting to reread Rabelais for a while, and I thought Screech did a good job with Montaigne. Speaking of which, I'm hoping Burton is one of those books I keep with me my entire life.
Herzog is my first Bellow. Did I do good?

>>8349578
Kierkegaard buddies!

>>8352988
Seems like you did. Can you read French? I see you picked Stendhal in French but Gargantua & Pantagruel in ENglish

>>8353126
I have a very basic understanding of french. I can read it alright, but I need a good dictionary by my side and its slow going. What happened here is that I read Pantagruel (Book 1) in French and I feel like I lost something, like some of the humor went over my head because I was struggling just to read the sentence. With Stendhal, I read the beginning in English, then picked up a Garnier edition and read that the rest of the way through and had little-to-no problems. Now I wanna go at it again, and I generally like the editing and notations in the Folio editions.

The Generic Book - Ed. Carlson & Pelletier
Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry, and the Sense of Reality - Matthew Ratcliffe
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice - Annemarie Mol

I have a big penis.

>>8353669
pic or btfo

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>>8353713
kek, you caught me on Body Multiple, I just ordered it. I just bought the Wittgenstein book though.

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I've been busy building a nice library upstairs in my new house, but the number of books was too much for it, so I had to find room in the basement for a few thousand. The overflow bookcases in the den now have all the genre and pulp fiction (SF, fantasy, horror, mystery/crime), humour, comics, graphic novels and related, and the narrow corner unit has all my D&D books. I've almost inadvertently created a plebeian library in our basement, and a patrician library upstairs.
As for recent purchases, I finally grabbed Chris Ware's Building Stories, but haven't had a chance to look through it yet.

>>8349827
I've been reading Teattro Grotesco, I love it so far.

>>8353762
He wanted you to post your dick, faggot.

>>8354198
i

>>8354118

Looks fucking gay. Fucking weaboo degenerate.

Semi-related, I was recently gifted a book of gogol's short stories, translated by p&v
Are his short stories good? I enjoyed dead souls a lot

>>8354683

Gogol is good. P&V sucks.

>>8354559
Weeaboo? Oh, because 50-60 of my 5000 books are manga? Sad troll kids.

>>8354118

>Taschen big comic books.

Hello Sir Manchild, Earl of Plebbington.

>>8349636
grow up fedora

>>8354839
Nice meme. Bit stale though.

>>8355320

My pale cum sitting in your mum is also getting stale.
I don't know why I banged that whale.

Bought a book titled "Lives of Victorian Political Figures III, Fawcett"
Never thought it would be about a feminist.

>>8352988
What is your interest in Lyn Hejinian?

>>8355577
I never got the hang of the LANGUAGE poets, but Hejinian's My Life has the perfect balance of whimsy and nostalgic introspection and I really wanted to reread it.

>>8355470
So what do you guys think of Millicent Fawcett?

>>8355347
No but seriously, you're a legit retard if you've actually bought into the "P&V are bad" /lit/ meme.

>>8355652

I'm Russian, P&V generate stunned crippled translations without any consideration for what any of the writers originally said.

>>8349626
hey i have that same vineland

>>8355609
Ah I see. Have you read Susan Howe?

>>8356078
I don't really give a fuck if you're Russian. Other people who speak Russian and who study Russian lit have praised their translations.

>>8356078
I also don't believe that you actually read the works both in Russian and in their P&V translations.

>>8356510
Oprah Book club praised them you хyй.
What eminent critics.

It's a travesty.
https://www.scribd.com/document/40906160/The-Pevearsion-of-Russian-Literature

>>8356514
I leaved through several copies that belonged to some London slag that I porked.

>>8352988
You should post more pictures of your books, they're fun to look at / drone off of.

>>8356391
No. Should I? I was recommended her book on Dickinson in college but never got around to it.

>>8357496
I don't know. I enjoy her because she was more or less a gateway for me to a lot of other literature, and she's certainly underrated. These days I like her non-fiction stuff a little more, but she was my favorite of the so-called Language Poets and I spent hours reading her. Perhaps worth looking into, perhaps not.

>>8357560
>>8357496
If you like Dickinson, the book you mentioned is certainly worth a read.

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>>8349252

>>8357565
I'd been planning on writing my dissertation on Dickinson in college, but something about the nature of her work and the interpretive scholarship I was reading put me off from doing it.
It's like if Blake had never published anything and his works had been stumbled upon; except Dickinson is much more private, insular, inscrutable.

>>8357565
I'm not a fan of incest.

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>>8349252

>>8357875
yeah ok

>>8357865
That's interesting. Whom did your dissertation focus on if you don't mind my asking?

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From the last thrift shopping spree

>>8349827
I was obsessed with Charles Beaumont as a kid

>>8357895
>Gravity's Rainbow companion
lol...

>>8358381
great illustrated classics are abridged senpai

>>8358328
I dropped out.

>>8357895
Did you steal those from libraries? What's with those barcodes

>>8358478
ah k

>>8357895
>Carver
I like you

>>8358381
>Full Frontal Feminism
What a cringey title

>>8358516
They're the barcode stickers online retailers use to keep track of their stock.

On a completely different, slightly-autistic note: I bought the Norton Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose recently from an online retailer (I actually took a seminar on Milton back in college but was too lazy/poor to buy the actual book, so I just read the poems in public domain and looked up the critical apparatus at the university library). The description said "Very Good—Gently used, has college/textbook stickers, etc." When it arrived, it had five (5!) huge circular stickers on the front cover, completely eclipsing the painting of Samson asleep with Dalila and the Philistenes hanging over his flowing locks (like Judith over Holofernes, Yael over Sisera). Now, I can accept the usual coating of inventory-tracking, itemizing stickers on a college-level textbook; but fuck you if you ever do this: if you ever work for one of these retailers and decide to stamp a huge sticker on the front cover, fuck you: fuck you in the ass sideways.

>>8349252

my only interest in Harold Pinter is that he supplied the (lines for) the dialogue which was used in a Nurse with Wound track.

As I read about him, he seems to be quite celebrated. And yet I have not just straight-up found a volume of his stuff in a bookstore.

>>8358432
It's actually well-written and useful for understanding GR more deeply on subsequent readings...

>>8358558
I used to work at Barnes and Noble, a big American book chain, and I used to have to put stickers on books and it was awful every time

>>8358632
I found it in a used bookstore in a small city in France so either I'm lucky or it's very common.
Anyway, it's supposed to be the second best 20th century English playwright after Beckett so I just went with reputation.

Also, I know I need to read more plays, something I honestly am quite reluctant to do so this was a good opportunity.

Any of you enjoy reading plays (besides Shakespeare obviously)? I read a lot of Molière and Musset when I was younger but I tend to avoid it now.