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>>8739712
How much?

For $12 at a local library book sale at I picked up:
The Dharma Bums
The Hawkline Monster
The Dream of the Celt
The Executioner's Song
The Last of the Wine
and Middle C

I also manage to grab Mason and Dixon for $4 and Against the Day for $5 earlier in the year.

I don't understand why anyone would pay more in chain stores or online for the luxury of not having to scrub off sticker glue with nail polish remover.

>>8739721
Read Middle C it's really good and then I read every fiction book that Gass published. Before hearing about Middle C I tried reading The Tunnel once or twice and wasn't ready for it. When you're done with Middle C read The Tunnel and get comfy as fuck.

>>8739712
>Calvino
>Borges
>Edda
>Saga

I like your taste fella.

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Tiny Orlando airport bookshop has all three for like 17 dollars each. Should I splurge? I sort of feel like I should be saving these reads for a trip to some dull village.

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r8?

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Most recent probably sideways

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I didn't buy these, they were actually given to me by another Virago reader who was getting rid of some books. I got them in the mail yesterday.

>>8740910
Who the fuck would read that crap even in good condition?

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>>8740920

>>8740910
jelly of all that taylor and renault

>>8740852
the new covers are shit but hes one of the best writers in the last few decades (if my opinion matters at all)

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>>8740944
>new covers are shit

Could be a lot worse. Actually like the idea but seems a bit too gaudy and hip for the type of books they are.

>>8740937
I've only read Taylor's short stories published by NYRB Classics and enjoyed them very much, so I am looking forward to reading her novels

>>8740910

Are you one of those mysterious Girl creatures I've heard so much about?

>>8741154
yes

>>8740863
>>8740898
I started reading a some 30 pages of Gravity Rainbow but I think it'll take some years before I really feel I want to read the whole thing
>>8740910
nice hope you have fun

>>8741228
i thought that at first but it's not too bad. Get a companion need be, I'm using some online one when I need it

>>8739712
>Reading Borges in english
Anon fuck's sakes.

>>8741218

Neat!

>>8741260
Though emotion is unavoidably transformed in translation, borges' work is mostly one of themes and ideas. Much worse to read translations of calvino.

>>8741289
Not because of that. But because OP can't seriously mean he doesn't know spanish. Isn't it taught at american schools?

>>8741228
Big mistake, it's a great read, worth every day of the many it'll take you to finish. The first 200 pages can be a bit slow (although I enjoyed them). Once you get used to the prose it moves a lot quicker too

>>8741317
Maybe OP isn't American?

>>8741317
i dont know where you got the idea that spanish is taught at american schools. im american and i could probably ask where the bathroom is in spanish but thats about it.

>>8742903
no cierto puto

>>8741154
>>8741218
>implying actually female
How was the TRANSition?

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My recent pickups from the antiquarian bookshop. The authors will have to do for those of you who don't speak the objectively best language out there.

>>8743038
>Reading abridged books.

>>8743168

>implying anything is abridged in this picture

That man without qualities is split into 3 books.

>>8740898
Isn't this version famous for having edition errors?

>>8743038
Thought's on Schmidt?
I think I want to read him thanks to his huge totally-not-finnegans-wake thing but I rather start with something more manageable which would be a less riskier investment.

>>8743038
>The Recognitions
jelly

>>8743038
What is this baby Musil ?

>>8743038
Are all the books published by oxford good?

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stay schemin boys

>>8743946

>virtual

But how do you tear out each page after you've read it?

for those of us with a stack, how long does it take to tackle it?

>>8743972
>tear out each page after you've read it
the fuck? why would you do that?

>>8743872

Most OUP editions hold a high standard.

>>8744116
To symbolize your brain's absorption and subsequent gradual loss of the contents of each page?

>>8744166
Well, that's fucking stupid.

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rate, mate, but don't haste to hate

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Judge me

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catching up on req. stuff since I only recently really got into reading for fun

Currently on Portrait of the Artist, very good as of page like 150

>>8744646
A Finnish who speaks Russian?

>>8744195
i just got the City & the City in the mail today.
I can't decide if I'm jazzed or not to read it

Is there a name for a type of book that includes all sorts of pages in different structures?

i dont really have an example but i've seen books over my years that have tons of pictures, little paragraphs on each page, just tons of differently structured stuff on every page...almost like a massive collection of notes/graphs/ ect ect ect

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Some purchases from the local library book sale.

>>8743088
>"objectively best language out there"
>roll my eyes and expect some ooga booga brownskin dogshit dialect
>turns out to be my native language

But my Polish is really bad: I only speak it with my mom, haven't read or written in it in ages, and don't know enough Polish literature to feel inclined to brush up on my grammar and rebuild my vocabulary. Is it worth it? I'm very comfortable speaking it, although only with very limited subject matter, and with fairly frequent grammatical errors.

Any recommendations for authors, especially easy books I could use to get back in the swing of reading Polish?

Dzięki!

>>8744116
lurk more

>>8746789
>ooga booga brownskin dogshit
I don't think that an edgy /pol/baby like you will have sufficient mental capacity for anything I might recommend.

>>8744195
top pleb

>>8746800
>is politically correct
>doesn't hate minorities

You know how I know you're not the Polish guy I was talking to?

>>8746817
Poruszająca historia.

>>8746793
No, thank you. I have better things to do with my time.

>>8746829
>what is google translate

>>8746844
Nie będę już odpisywał, ale jeśli szukasz polaczków o prawicowych poglądach to polecam raczej deskę o grach komputerowych. Niestety umiejętność biegłego posługiwania się językiem obcym działa jak dość mocny filtr na idiotów twojego pokroju.

>>8746859
Were you raised in Germany? Why are you such a liberal pussy if you're Polish? What a shame.

>>8746871
Sorry to burst your bubble but those are the standard views for anyone who decided to continue their education past high school and doesn't live in the fucking boonies.

>>8746878
>le everyone who isn't a progressive cuck is a hillbilly meme

Literally kill yourself my man.

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>>8746883
>standard
>le everyone
Putting your hilariously low reading comprehension skills aside that's pretty much the case here.

>>8746789
>and don't know enough Polish literature to feel inclined to brush up on my grammar and rebuild my vocabulary. Is it worth it? I'm very comfortable speaking it, although only with very limited subject matter, and with fairly frequent grammatical errors.

are you me? i need to start working on my polish too, before i lose it completely. if you don't mind memes and can't think of anything else, the polish translation of "the stranger" was pretty easy to go through for practice. otherwise i guess there's contemporary adult lit, which is likely going to be shit in every language it's written in

>>8746963
You can try reading something by Kapuściński or Stasiuk, they are both very good and largely non-fiction with fairly simple writing styles.

>>8746983
much obliged anon, thanks! i'll check out what work of theirs i can find on libgen

>>8747000
If that fails you, check out chomikuj.pl you will have to make an account and there are some bullshit download quotas but it's a top tier repository of ebooks in polish.

>>8746758
Nice.

>>8747006
thank you! i've heard of the site before but i was under the impression it was mostly bunk files. i'll look up the authors you mentioned there.

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>>8739712
>meme

>>8745818
It's a schoolbook, I'm learning

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>>8747056
>stack in the background

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>>8746800
>Edgy.

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>>8746901
>When you side with left-wing liberal political opinions and advocate for the poor and low educated masses, but call others dumb hillbillies for having different opinions to you.

>>8747238
>>8747240
Back to your containment board.

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>>8747147

Why do you need that much headache medicine?

>>8747245

>containment board

We president now.

>>8744646
ketä oot

>>8747147
Drinking Sinol's :DDD

>>8739712
>doesn't read poetry in it's original language
Why bother?

>>8747840
>>8747250
Saturday day medicine's :DDD

>>8747266
Kauppisen Pete tässä moi

>>8747147
You look like a girl.

>>8748348
I'm behind the camera

>>8748348
That's her sister

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>>8739712

>>8748469
What the best way for organizing a personal library?

>>8744678
>abridged edition

Judged

>>8748469
Are you the quilter, or is it a spouse?

Nice to see someone else into both books and quilting, if the former.

>>8748469
Your mom's basement looks nice. You should have removed the sowing machine before taking this picture though.

>>8748487
me. patchwork is for a couch cover. all out of denim.

>>8748494
lol. its my private study. work in progress. back wall is full of books too. cookbooks all in kitchen, old vintage books on display in living room. (worried about these being exposed to sun though, need to find a good place to store - any suggestions welcome.)

>>8748551
There are benefits to aging - like being rewarded for hard work, and having nice stuff.

Things can be shitty, (especially for the /lit types?) but work hard towards your goals, and make a rad place for yourself.

>>8748494
sewing

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D-did I do good?

>>8748551
Put them in hermetically sealed boxes.

>>8744116

Wew lad, you're really stupid

>>8748821
>Put them in hermetically sealed boxes.
Not worth having then.

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>>8739712
>E-Reader

They Must Go by Rabbi Meir Kahane is literally my only book on it right now.
Also best book ever desu.

>>8749096
>Jew propaganda
I am unsurprised that a subhuman reads such swill.

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>>8749166
Achmed, I...

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>>8739712
Cosmicomics

>>8740863
Frankl - excellent book but as dark as they get

>>8740898
are you going for GR or Underworld first?? I have underworld and can't really get into pynchon

>>8741251
This is a comfy stack if ever i saw one, taoism ftw!

>>8743038
>The Story of Art
what the hell are you doing anon?

>>8743088
Le Clezio!

>>8743972
made me lol

>>8744195
is this actually a 'too read' stack?

>>8744678
>Most Excellent

>>8745679
Tried Girl With Curious Hair?
>bible & Conrad in the same stack
wew la

>>8746758
Well done, I guess you got in there early?

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>>8749729
>not
>t h i c c
>enough

>>8749009
Explain.

>>8749720
I'm going to read underworld first, easier on my head since I'm currently reading meme joke. Rainbow is just going to be one of those big goals

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>>8740898
My evil twin.

>>8748707
No. That looks dry as fuck. I'd be surprised if you manage to read at least one of those philosophy books from start to finish.

>>8750102
I've read them all already, albeit in electronic form. I want the physical books now.

>>8750205
Did u seriously run ur dic pic through an online exif remover service?

>>8750282
Yes. I dont want you faggots knowing where I live

>>8750282
did u seriously check for the exif data on a dick pic you found on a mongolian stamp collecting forum

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>>8750293
wel I already know u live in a shitstain indonesian slum and I'm coming to circumsize your third-world chode and burn down your house.

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>>8750320

>>8750100
Beautiful. How's that algorithm book?

>>8750374
Really good but also tricky to read, I've never heard of anyone reading it all cover to cover, you need to decide on a path through the book skipping certain chapters and return to those on the next read.
Obviously there's also the fact that you gotta implement the algos yourself if you really wanna learn anything.

>>8750374
I mean it's fucking CLRS, it is THE algorithms book.

PSEUD THREAD
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>>8740910

Don't listen to that mean anon, they might be hidden gems

>>8740910
Pilgrimage is good, you should find the other volumes

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Mostly second hand haul

>>8749720

>is that actually a to read stack

Yeah. These are the dregs of a much larger stack that has shrunk over time. I'm aware that much of them are pleb-tier - the fact is that most of them are the worst books that my wife/family have bought me over time.

Also some of them are pleb-tier because I'm a fucking pleb. I have no excuses.

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>>8751415
Anon why the fuck is your version of the Communist so fucking thick?

>>8751956
Likely includes all the various 'introduction' written for different countries

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I've read Gilgamesh a few times, but never owned a physical copy.

I recently read Tennyson's Idylls of the King and am currently reading Steinbeck's version of the King Arthur Tales, so I had to grab Malory.

Milton, Orlando Furioso, and Goethe's Faust will fill in some serious gaps in my reading.

I read A Theft by Saul Bellow after hearing great things about him from many people. I was really disappointed with it, but wanted to give another go and Humboldt'd Gift seems to have a reputation as one of his best.

Not pictured: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which I've read but lost a long time ago and now I'm going to be teaching it; some shit book Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez that I got for free for spending over $25 and will gice away to someone.

Grand total: $36.72

>>8750100
What's that black thing on the sheet music? Not the wallet or flash drives

>>8751402
I don't actually care what he said, and I'm looking forward to the non-great books too; me and the book donator meet through a group dedicated to old British female middlebrow fiction, so...

>>8752136
Was that the group on LT? I didn't know there were free books to be had there.

>>8748469
I wanna look over your shelves and pull out any book I find interesting and then we talk about it over cigars

>>8752162
Yeah, when people are giving away books they often ask other members of the group if they want them first. For books that aren't of special interest, I mark them in my catalogue and LT members can ask if they want them.

>>8743458
the original picador MWQ was split into three volumes.. They are nearly impossible to find but general consensus is that the translation is far better than the one currently in print

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>>8739712

>>8751441
>dregs
>family - not a personal stack

Just what I though anomalom

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I've been taking pictures of all my book hauls from the past year, so here's pictures of lots of stacks

1/4

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>>8752642
>>8752646
>>8752648
>>8752653
>book haul

>>8752663
I have one too. Children's books don't really work that well on e-devices, in my experience.

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got them all for $22

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Putting together a comfy winter stack for December through the Christmas break.

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Bottom book is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

$25.66 for all four

>>8752781
hmm, never heard of that Tanizaki. Good stack

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Everything looks like a storefront to me

>>8752781
Anyone read The Adolescent?

Apparently its considered a 'failure' of Dostoevsky and not worth reading.

>>8755007

I have a copy of that in Slovenian. I can't read Slovenian.

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>>8752397

My detective skills tell me you are interested in the Troubles.

>>8748477
through authors birthdays!

My camera is terrible so I'm just going to post a list.

>The Hunchback of Notre Dam - Victor Hugo
>Walden - Henry David Thoreau
>A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
>The Fall - Albert Camus
>The Trial - Franz Kafka
>Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
>Various stuff by Aeschylus

Which do I read first /lit/bois?

>>8754104
>Ragged Dick And Struggling Upward

Written by Chuck Tingle?

>>8755282
Godot

>>8755456
STOP
repeating:
STOP

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Figure this thread would be most relevant, so posting here instead of starting a new one.

I was gifted a $50 Barnes & Noble giftcard for my birthday. However, books at B&N are generally way overpriced. Was wondering if anyone had recommendations on the most cost-efficient things to get there.

>>8757419
Whatever the fuck you want, faggot.

>>8757419
books

>>8755490
lmao I know who this belongs to

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>>8739712
>>8739712

>>8739712

>Labyrinths

My nigga

>The COMPLETE cosmicomics

Wait, what? Mine's 153 pages, is that abridged or something?

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I have a very limited taste.

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Thought I would check out a small local charity shop. Amongst the piles of fad books I actually found a small section of stuff /lit/ has meme'd into my brain. Pretty much cleared It out.

I know I just got stuff everyone has heard of but honestly the gaps in my basic reading are so big I gotta get some of this under my belt at some point.

>>8757419
buy something overpriced since it's not your money being wasted

>>8755459

>Juan Gabriel Vásquez

MUH NIGGA

>>8758662
Hey man how is Choosing Death? Was thinking of picking up that book

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I fell for the translation meme and got both P&V and Maude. All my Dostos are P&V and I've had no problems, but I hear Maude is a good translators for Tolstoy. Comparing the first two pages it definitely leaves me with a better first impression.

I never knew Oxfords were such nice quality. They're really adult but better than black Penguins.

>>8759790
>Phone typos.
>Easily better than the black Penguins.