Stack/recent purchases thread

>>8839914
*Conte - Latin Literature: A History
And I guess it's left to right since my pic uploaded sideways

>>8839914
is that a fucking abridged moby dick

>>8839968
why would norton critical be abridged

>>8839981
It's so thin, though. I find it hard to believe that the full text is on so few pages--it looks like 300.

>>8839988
They might use that flimsy Bible paper

Are those Chelsea House introductions by Bloom any good? What exactly are they - compilations of essays on the particular writer?

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>>8839914
1/2

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>>8839914
What's in the Tacitus volume? Agricola+Germania+Oratory?

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>>8840020
2/2

>>8840050
Oh my god I'd love those two volumes of Vasari. I envy you a lot

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>>8839968
No like >>8839981 said it's a NCT, just densely texted (pic related). I haven't read as much as I ought but it's on my queue.
>>8840013
Yeah they're essays selected by Bloom on a given author. I don't like them as much as Cambridge Companions but the Dostoevsky CC is more than I can afford right now and I already owned the MCV anyway
>>8840050
Right on the money

>>8840020
How are you liking Stoner so far?

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>>8840020
>a jest of god

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Went to find a replacment for my copy of babbit i spilled soda on, walked out with this.

How did i do?

>>8840050
Montaigne is based

>>8840408
four great picks

>>8840170
i'll answer for that guy.

he's loving it, it's fantastic.

>>8840457
that was just a receipt from the purchase. I haven't started it. don't plan on reading it any time soon negro. but u heard it's a joyous read.

>>8840020
I like Waugh and Ford (pls pet marmalade kitty :3)

>>8840408
you've got one book there you'll still want to read when you grow up. Possibly 1.5, depending on what made it into the irish stories collection.

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Literally the first three books I've ever bought. I know On The Road isn't his strongest but it was in sale. Also Salinger was one I missed in 9th grade and it's a book as an American you must read so I hear. It was on sale too.

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go easy on me

>>8840518
so pleb. do better next time.

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The picture is kind of crap so, from the bottom:
Catch 22 (for school)
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Heart of A Dog
Dead Souls
The Castle
The Idiot
Force of Circumstance
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Chymical Wedding

>>8840738
Hey, I have that edition of The Odyssey.

>>8840518
Bukowski-nice

How is naked lunch?

>>8840757
Cost me $9NZD. i was stoked

>>8840783
I think I paid about 20AUD. Lucky.

>>8840783
I also have a similar one for The Iliad.

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Managed to get a copy of the Jin Ping Mei,the autobiography of the last chinese emperor and a small collection of Pu Songling's mystery/ghost stories

The ghost stories where good.

Why not just keep alive one thread?

Recently bought:

The Gay Science
Twlight of the Idols
The AntiChrist
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
Halo: The Fall of Reach
The City of God

>>8840471
>reading Ulysses before Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pleb spotted.

>>8840471
Salinger is good, I didn't read the Catcher until college and I'm fairly certain I was able to appreciate more of its subtleties by then than if I'd read in primary or high school when all my friends were talking about it
Good luck with Ulysses though

>>8839968
>>8839981
>>8839988

Not OP but that version is not abridged. Believe it or not the full text of Moby-Dick is about half of that paperback. The second half is supplemental material, critical essays, etc. It's about 400 of the 800 or so (very thin) pgs. Actually not unpleasant to read from though. Has great footnotes as well. Would recc.

So many britbongs on this board. No wonder /lit/s taste in philosophy is so shit.

>>8841372
>t. conte-scum

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>>8840020
Have you read anything else by Ford?

>>8840050
Why aren't you reading Montaigne in French if you know it?

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Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Franz Kafka - The Trial
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Harry Martinson - Vägen till Klockrike
Jules Verne - The Blockade Runners
August Strindberg - Hemsöborna
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Gambler

>>8841676
>I get my book recommendations from /lit/ exclusively

>>8840080
these are the books of a non pleb reader.

>>8842406
Sounds about right.

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Really pumped about all of these. i have way too many unread books, but it feels so good to find books that i Know will be my favorites

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I have finally finished my Gass collection. I now have all the Gass a man possibly could. 6 months of collecting Gass.

>>8843784
nigga never read a book Inn his life

>>8843826
ive read like 34 plus other not great ones from before i was /book/ that i dont count

>>8843850
but yes 34 is basically 0

>>8843857
lol

>>8843857
Bah, stop being a dick. 34 May seem like 0 to find elitist prick like you but on average that's a lot more than most people read their entire adult lives.

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I learned later that the Alchimie etc was actually translated from english and I feel silly now because while I know french as a nearly native speaker i don't know alchemy terms even in english so i keep having to look up the definitions in one or both languages.

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Went to a nearby book warehouse for the first time in a while. $45 for the stack, except for the Zweig and Tuchman, which my friend bought for me.

>>8843883
Nice, and I feel your pain about 4chan fucking up image rotation without warning. Can you read ancient greek? If so, why those specific plays? If not, why not just get a complete set of Euripides?

>>8843883
I can - classics is what I studied mainly. And those plays because I like the loeb editions since I'm lazy and you can just glance from the english to the facing greek whenever you're curious about a translation but not have to do all the thinking yourself.

>>8843872
i was just preparing for the ensuing patrician onslaught

>>8840170
not him but god its really good.

>>8843823
Where'd you get that copy of Stein? All I ever see online is the newer edition.

>>8844131
Check abebooks and click "seller-supplied images" in the filters to see exactly what you're buying.

>All these paperbacks

Absolutely plebeian.

>>8844155
>abebooks
That same edition's been sitting on a shelf in the back of one of my favourite bookstores for months now but I haven't had the heart to pull the trigger on it since most of what I've read of Stein has left me cold. The first few paragraphs of TMoM seem pretty good, but I don't know if I could stand it over that length.

>>8844513
How much are they asking for it? Might be worth the shot.

Although I totally understand having those books that you consider buying every week without wanting them quite enough to actually go for them.

>>8843916
Zweig's autobiography is interesting as fuck and a solid gift
The dude brushed shoulder with what seems like almost every important literary figure on the continent (he and Rilke were apparently tight bros) and he traveled a lot as well, so there's a nice bit on his stay in post-revolution Russia among other things, and on top of it all Zweig's writing is simple and clear but with the occasional flourish
He met Joyce, too

>>8841115
End you're live

>>8845011
Very cool, that's kind of what my friend was saying. Definitely sounds worth a shot.

>>8840020
>condition of woman in white
Why do the big black penguin classics always look like that after one or two reads?

>>8846672
It's because the cover and spine are much stiffer than most paperbacks. It is totally possible to read them without breaking the spine, mine all look brand new after several readings, but it requires you to hold them somewhat uncomfortably and most people probably just can't be bothered.

>>8845020
kys butthurt wimp

>>8846672
they are super shit quality.

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>Samuel Beckett: Trilogy
>F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works
>Italo Calvino: Our Ancestors
>Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
>Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories
>Robert Walser: Selected Stories
>Robert Graves: Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina
>Robert Penn Warren: All the King's Men
>Garrett Hardin: Filters against Folly
>J. M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians
>Georg Lichtenberg: The Waste Books

>>8846775
>No footnotes
>worst translations

They are trash anon

>Infinite Jest (would be a re-reading)
>Kafka's The Castle
>Spoon River Anthology
>Divine Comedy
>Ulysses
>Master and Margarita
>Bible (Already reading the Books of Samuel)
>Virginia Woolf's Collected Stories
>Tennyson's Complete Poetry

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>Fänrik Ståls Sägner
>Magic Mountain
>Gulag Archipelago, First two volumes
>Icelandic Sagas 5 volumes

>>8847111
>Coetzee

Good pick up anon.

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>>8839914
Hey guys, I've been getting into my favourite musicians' favourite novels and I'd like some recommendations on which book I should start with –– and maybe some other ones I might like...

My stack, in no particular order, is:

Suskind - Perfume
Burroughs - Junky
Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Nabokov - Lolita
Burgess - Clockwork Orange

(Sorry in advance for being a pleb. Thanks in advance for any help.)

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my recent buys

>>8841676
Read Sound and the Fury first
then read everything else
Then Read Sound and the Fury again and maybe you'll be able to follow.

>>8840738
Nice editions, post bookshelves pls

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Arrived yesterday.

@8848266
Way to be a memeloving cunt
Doesn't even deserve a (you)

>>8848468
book with no spine label is a case for basic income

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Eichendorff and Klopstock were recommended to me by Goethe personally

>>8842406
Not a bad thing whatsoever

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At some point my french vocab will surpass my english

I still suck at speaking and listening comprehension though

>>8847384
Perfume and Lolita are legit great.
Burroughs bores me to death and Whitman is nice, specially if you're not too much into poetry

>>8849780
thank you, thank you, thank you. i'll get started on them asap

>>8848468
>SJWs Always lie
NO THEY DON'T YOU FUCKING WHITE MALE, CIS, BIGOT, SCUM!

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Finished The Trial today.

Now what?

>>8852168
Lolita