Stack/recent purchases thread

ulysses and illuminatus are good throw the rest in the fuckin trash

read ulysses before illuminatus RAW is a big joyce fan

The Long Ships is so fucking enjoyable.

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What I had lying by my bed.

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>>8855169
Ayyyy Jane Eyre doe.

>>8855195
I just finished Catch-22. It was good, but probably 200 pages more than it needed to make it's point.

>>8855199
nice. have you read it yet? i recently finished pride and prejudice and middlemarch and figured i'd keep going with the theme

>>8855237
Nah, I've just started with White Noise.
I've read American Psycho though, and it's pretty good if you appreciate it's humor.

>>8855199
Dope stack senpai.

>>8855195
Which translation of C&P is that?

>>8855463
no that guy but, david mcduff

What Spanish doorstoppers do I get with a £15 Amazon voucher? I was thinking along the lines of 2666 and something else

>>8855520
Don Quixote

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r8

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trade paperback version

>>8855763
Blood meridian is great and i love mark twain. What is the yellow book? Looks like J. D. Salinger but i cant make out the title.

>>8855793
It's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

>>8855763
Americana/10

>>8855470
Is it any good?

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I spend so much time starting with the Greeks that I ended up finding a book about starting with the Greeks.

>>8855169
Picked up Osman's Dream a few weeks back. Kind of weird that it seems like the only recent history of the Ottoman Empire, I would have expected way more material to be available on the subject.

>>8855169
Oh wow. You bought your required readings for next semester early. Get out

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Second to bottom is The Sorrows of Young Werther in German and the middle one is Faust in German. Pls don't judge too hard

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Just got this bad boy from the mail.

>>8856192
Osman's Dream is OK, check out Colin Imber and Inalcik on the high period as well

Also check out Hanioglu on the Late Ottoman Empire, very good / short

>>8856327

If you can read German, and every author in that stack is German, why aren't you reading all of them in the original German?

>>8856597
Two books don't make a stack, fag.

>>8856624
Triggered :D
This is also a "recent purchaseses" thread by the way you illiterate cunt.

>>8856578
Everything there is in German except Zarathustra and the bookd by Jung. I don't have a lot of cash to shell out on German translations right now. I mainly just wanted to read Kafka, Goethe and Hesse in German. Plus, I'm going through uni to be a teacher, so I want to have some books that the kids in my class can read if they're interested in certain topics (which no one will anyways, I just know I did that as a student).

>>8857054
>German translations

>>8856327
>Jung
Have fun with that one champ.
It's like Freud, but even more pseud.

>>8857733
> t. Someone who hasn't read it and follows along with /lit/'s circlejerk opinions

I went to my local charity shop and somehow they had Faust and A Confederacy of Dunces. I also picked up The Luminaries. It won the Man Booker in 2013 so I thought it was worth a punt. Books were 50p each.

>>8858575
a confederacy of dunces is pretty good.

>>8856334
>hazlitt
>thumbsupbrentrambo.mpeg

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someone please stop me before I do this

>>8859640
>he buys his novels online

Kys, you fucking pleb. There's no hope for you.

>>8859640
Delete the complete Ernest Hemingway

>>8859642
>good luck buying english books in bookstores in Sweden

go ahead make my day
>>8859646
Why? It's no good?

>>8859656
Hemingway is great. Don't listen to that cunt.

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R8 pls

Vergil - Works (OCT)
Bible - Authorized KJV
Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
Modern Critical Views: Virgil
Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Augustus - Fragments of his Works (Teubner iirc)
Bible - Vulgate
Szerb - Journey by Moonlight
Bolaño - 2666
Egenes - Intro to Sanskrit pt 1

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>>8855169
inb4 triggered commies like last time

>>8859840
How are you liking Heart of Darkness?

>>8859826
Nice stack, but it pains me to look at your battered copy of the KJV (I have the same edition too in my stack).

>>8856597
I recently got the third logh novel too. Hopefully I'll have time to get through it over Christmas

>>8859848
Yeah I bought it used, I can't bear to pay full price for a book I know I can get so much cheaper from abebooks vel sim.

>>8859915
Oxford has huge sales 3-4 times a year. There's a 50% off sale going on right now until January 8:

https://global.oup.com/academic/promojump/holiday2016/?cc=us&lang=en&promocode=HOLIDAY16

Just buy books in chunks ahead of time, rather than one by one at full price. Same goes for barnes and noble, which often (not always) has prices matching amazon's regular discounts, and on top of that has 20% off sales for maybe 7 days out of every month (often with requirements of spending $75, $100, so on).

>>8859952
The thing is I paid $6 for that Bible, and that's on the upper end of what I usually pay. Even with such a big sale it's still just cheaper to buy used. And it's not like I'm particularly vain about the look of the book, I car much more about the content. Thanks though for telling me about the sale, I might pick some stuff up I can't find used.

>>8859952
Do you know if BookDepository or Booktopia do similar after Christmas?

Live in Australia and so apart from Abebooks, buying used versions will cost more than new books in Oxfords current sale.

>>8859826

Journey by Moonlight is awesome, I like that it's getting more renown on /lit/ lately, Hungarian literature is pretty good for the most part.

>>8856597

Where exactly does the third volume start? I'm watching the series again and just passed where they destroyed the other fortress a couple episodes after 28

>>8855612

Already own it, was considering 2666 or something else by Bolano, I could get that and one of his other books considerably cheaper than regular retail price. I just wanted something to read while getting pissed in tapas bars next month.

>>8860133
El Juego del Ángel? i haven't read it but it was recommended to me. no se.

>>8860148

Shadow of the Wind sounds like it'd be fun

>>8860133
Just after both civil wars have ended.
This volume looks to be painfully short,clocking in around 280~ pages.
I think it covers the "fortress against fortress" storyline

>>8860157

I think I'll wait until volume 4 comes out then pick up 2-4.

>>8860189
So one year from now?

>>8860193

Fourth one comes out in a couple months yes? I can wait that long or at least get two and three and just wait until the other nine are released and read them in one sitting.

>>8860202
Whatever you think is good for you.
I'm curious how the new translator will handle things.

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>>8855169
Ignore Darwin, I had just already stacked away my books before this photo; everything else is still relevant, though.

They haven't arrived yet, but here's what I just ordered

John Cheever-collected short stories
Raymond Carver-what we talk about when we talk about love
Borges-ficciones
Barth-lost in the funhouse
Yamamoto tsunetomo-Hagakure
Miyamoto musashi-The book of five rings
Takuan soho-the unfettered mind

Also just finished The Good Earth and was thinking about picking up the sequels. They any good?

I'm curious about buying Lolita. Is it good?

>>8860262
Definitely some of the most nuanced and emotional prose I've ever read.

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About to click buy. Should I? or is there too much edge?

Should I switch out Inferno for Swann's Way?

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>>8860289
Don't get that Zarathustra, get this instead. It has Zarathustra and a bunch more.

>>8860289
Switch out Inferno for the complete Divine Comedy you doof.

>>8860289
>>8860390
Yeah you can get the whole divine comedy from Everyman for <$20.

>>8860289
If you are getting Mrs Dalloway you might as well get the Oxford edition.

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>>8860289

> 2016
> buying books

you're better off spending that dosh on an ereader

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Bought these about 2 months ago real cheap off amazon. Have finished all but Fate of Worlds, just started that one this evening and I am about 50 pages in. After I finish that I'll go back and read the rest of the known space series not shown here. Only one I wouldn't highly recommend is A World Out of Time. It's not that good and it's not part of a larger story.

>>8860390
I was told that edition was the best because it comes with a lot of additional analysis.

>>8857054
Why would German books be in German translation? Wat?

>>8860482
Hello Reddlt.

>>8855195
>not the Everyman's Library versions of Dostoevsky
cum on step it up

>>8860230
I've always thought about getting Marco Polos Travels, anyone know if its good?

Is it exciting in any way or does he just describe things he saw very mechanically?

>>8860482
Ringworld is good but a bit slow

i dont have a camera or a phone but these are the last books i've bought

Joseph Conrad - Nostromo*
Dostoevsky - Karamazov/Punishment*
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers & Sons*
Herodotus - Histories **
Gillian Gill - We Two (biography of Queen Victoria & her husband) *
John Keegan - The First World War*
Zola - Germinal **
Gogol - Dead Souls

(* means I've finished the book ** means I'm currently reading)

>>8861060
I dont know if I would classify it as exciting - but it is certainly interesting. I would recommend you check out Sir John de Mandeville's Travels - much more fantastical type stuff in that, if thats what youre looking for.

>>8861298
Most of Larry Niven's work is slow right up till the end and then everything happens. It's better in his more recent novels though.

>>8860875
I really don't think Reddit would like Niven's work they'd probably get triggered by how most of the women in his novels are good for nothing living fleshlights. I'm also sorry you can't enjoy good scifi just because you're afraid somebody might think you look at reddit. You're missing out.

>>8860482
How is the rest of the series? I read ringworld but wasn't super impressed and I'm not sure whether to read the rest or not.

>>8860289
if you havent read any prior nietzsche dont do this

>>8863535
It gets better with each book. The first one is probably the least interesting and well written but it's a gateway to an amazing saga. I especially like the ringworld sequels as they explore the ringworld further and you get to meet and learn about some of the very interesting races and cultures on the ringworld. The ____ of Worlds series is primary focused on the Puppeteers and Humans and their interactions with eachother and themselves, it is a very good read as well, my favorite being Juggler of Worlds.

>>8856337
Very late reply here, but thank you very much for the recommendations. Much appreciated!

>>8857733
>its pseud because i dont get it i'll stick to my /lit/s top 100

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just stacked up whatever was within an arm's reach of me

>Norwegian Wood
borrowed from my dad
>Meditations
currently reading through casually
>Infinite Jest
reading at least a few pages every day
>Christ's Samurai + Silence
got Silence because of the film trailer, and Christ's Samurai so I could read up on the historical context of Silence
>The Trial
found it in a charity shop the other day
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
read the first few pages, haven't found time to keep going recently as it's a lower priority than Meditations and Infinite Jest
>Dynasty and Conquerors
saw them on sale at a local book shop and decided to get them as they've been sitting on my amazon wishlist for a few months

>>8855199
Best stax

>La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu by Giraudoux
>La Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
>Œuvres romanesques by Diderot
>Salammbô by Flaubert
>Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

The French section of the used bookstore practically trippled while I was away. Feels good.

>>8863580
Where do I start?

>>8859640
Köp min vän, jag lägger minst 1000kr/mån på böcker.

>>8864610
Jag med. Lol.

Instämmer för övrigt, köp skiten.

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>Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha
about the bloodiest conflict in Brazil's history, happened in 1896. Its narrated in a very historical way and its also very geographic, not only about the 'conflict area', but about the whole country. A literary critic compared it to the Iliad.
>The complete Plays from Machado de Assis, one of my favorite brazilian writers.

Picking up 2666 tomorrow but I might get another book alongside it, was considering another Krasznahorkai novel but I'm open to suggestions.

>>8864469
>Infinite Jest

Another one fell for it boys!

Rate a pedant of history lads

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Check it, phone posting sorry

>>8867186
faggot

>>8867189
shitlord

>>8864469
That's the wrong Norwegian Wood

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Recent electronic reads:
>Junger - Storm of Steel
>Winterling - Caligula: A Biography
>Champlin - Nero (Biography)
>Tacitus - Annals
>Horkheimer - Eclipse of Reason
>Marx / Engels - Communist Manifesto
>Berman - All That Is Solid Melts into Air
> Several Dadaist manifestos and the Marinetti Futurist Manifesto
>Junger - On Pain

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>>8867205
here it is right-side-up

>>8867205
>>8867214
Did you read Tacitus in Latin? Have you read other Tacitus? What did you think of Annals (and whatever else you may have read)? Favorite themes/passages/moments?

Great stack btw. Monte Cristo is fantastic (there's a read-through in case you missed it: http://boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/8858514)

>>8867317
Thanks for informing me of the read-through. I just might do that. I am only a couple semesters into my study of Latin now. I've read a few passages of The Annals in Latin, and there's also a great essay by A.J. Woodman called "Death in the First Act" that is a fantastic analysis of Annals 1.6 (if you haven't already read it). After reading this essay, I'd say that the death of Agrippa Postumus is one of my favorite moments along with Nero's assassination of his mother.

>>8867317
>>8867456
The uncertainty evoked in Tacitus' prose makes one feel that they're experiencing the history firsthand with the same complexity that comes along with occupying the present.

>>8867317
is that a good DoMC translation btw?

>>8867189
rude

>>8855169
Norton critical editions are really great

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Got both for $10. I'm happy because I finally bought a copy of C&P, since the one I owned was stolen by some faggot. Wind-Up Bird is pretty good so far.

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Went to the nearby city today (I am from a moderately-sized town, not much in the way of bookstores) so I picked up some stuff. Could not find Thus Spoke Zarathustra for the life of me, however.
Also on top is The Godmakers by Frank Herbert; it's an old copy so the colours have faded somewhat.

>>8867199
>he doesn't own a wood burning stove

no, my friend, it is the correct Norwegian Wood.

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> used books selling for under a dollar in good condition from third party sellers on Amazon cost $4 shipping for each book, even if more than one book is from the same seller

REEEEEEEEEEEEE I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO BUY DOZENS OF BOOKS AT ONCE FOR LIKE 10 BUCKS

>>8868591
>BUY DOZENS OF BOOKS AT ONCE FOR LIKE 10 BUCKS

go to literally any second hand bookshop

>>8868591
thriftbooks.com

>>8868609
it's a little cheaper and they usually have coupons

every 50 bucks you get 5 bucks on credit so a free book basically

>>8855237
Jane Eyre is so much better than P+P IMO. It's not really a comedy of manners though so you might find it very different to what you've read before.

>>8868605
I need to look harder for a good used bookstore in my city, they seem to be either obscenely overpriced or not have much in stock of stuff I'm interested in.

This one shop made me so mad, I really wanted to get a few books that day but they were charging literally $7 each for old Star Trek novels in fair condition, to give one example of their terrible pricing. Walked out empty handed from that place.

Got the following today:
2666-Bolano
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep-PKD
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf

Never heard of the last one but it sounds pretty fun. Might order two Kraznahorkai novels today or tomorrow to come before or after Christmas.

Bought today:

The Savage Detectives - Bolano
In the Miso Soup - Murakami

Long journey up to the senpai for xmas, hoping to get through these on the way.

>>8869032
>>8869060
It's Bolaño you moñgoloids

>>8855763
the blood meridian is quite boring imo, overhyped at least. I guess you can like it. They ride and spit a lot.

>>8869060

What is the correct distance to stay away from Murakami's novels?

>>8869183
chew the shit right out of my ass

>>8868337
Haven't read Bone since I was maybe in Grade 6, but they're definitely really great, hope you enjoy them.

>>8864610
>>8865647
lel okej kör på då

>>8869032
Samarkand is epic. Leo Africanus is Maalouf's best book but Samarkand is my next favorite by him. The parts about Alamut assassin cult and the political relations were great.

>>8855763
Nice. Although Blood Meridian was a hard read, it did rekindle my interest in American literature. Looks like a nice haul.

>>8870153
varför köper du homeros på engelska?

>>8870227
Läser alla mina böcker på Engelska. Enklare så, känns också som att det formodligen är bättre översatta på Engelska. Vem vet vad det är för stolle som översätter böcker till Svenska

>>8870241
Sverige har en jävligt bra översättare av klassisk litteratur i Ingvar Björkesson. Även Erland Lagerlöfs Homeros är bra om man är intresserad av äldre svenska. Hexameter blir ofta rätt bra på svenska, tillbörligt försvenskad ofc. Därmed inte sagt att engelska översättningar är sämre

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>>8870268
Jaha nice nice, lägger det på minnet men tror jag fortsätter med Engelska översättning tills vidare.

Funderar dock på att köpa min första svenska bok, nämligen denna. Bör vara närmare orginalet att läsa den på svenska.

Läst den?

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Kinda sucks that the nearest used bookstore is ~40km away.

>>8870808
De isländskasagorna är både bättre och mer läsvärda imo.

>>8870994
Good news, Anon, you can buy used books on the internet now.

>>8871106
Of course, but it's just not the same.
The town I used to live in had a lovely bookstore, the owner was always friendly and helpful. Good sense of humour too.

>>8868591
Sound like an American. You'd commit suicide if you knew how expensive books are regardless of their condition literally anywhere else in the world.

>>8868337
Oh boy you're gonna love Siddhartha, I just finished that yesterday

>>8871393
It's funny you say that, it's the first I picked to read.

>>8870994
Ahahah. I drive 3 times that distance just to get to work. Then do it again in the evening. Though my nearest bookstore is only 30 km away.

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These came in from ebay today. Got them all for 10$.

>>8871641
Those look like something I'd like, I might have to check that author out.

>>8871705
they're a lot of fun. the buzz killingtons around here will probably give me shit.

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>>8871726
They give me shit for liking Larry Niven's other books besides Ringworld. Don't let them get to you. There are some of us here who have good taste.

>>8855227
I agree, it gets really dull towards the end.

>>8855199
loved the stranger, how is the plauge?

>>8869193
>toadvine spat

I got this book called "reading like a writer" for my bday today

Has anyone read it? Tell me about it

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>>8870241
>han er stadig i sin engelske fase

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Posted it before but whatever it's my latest stack.

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Was in the bookstore again today, looking quite intently at a collection of JG Ballard's short stories. I had to pull myself away though, I have far too many unread/half-read books lying around and they will continue to remain in such a state if I continue to purchase books that will undoubtedly suffer the same fate as those that came before them.

I'm practising some self control, lads. Feels like shit.

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>>8855169
>George Orwell - Homage To Catalonia
I enjoyed reading Orwell in high school and chose this
>Alain de Benoist - Manifesto For A European Renaissance
Just started reading it, pretty interesting.
>L'Etranger
Finished it a few days ago. I don't think i get the final monologue, but I really enjoyed the book.
>Schopenhauer - The Art Of Being Happy
I liked Marcus Aurelius' take on stoicism and thought Schopenhauer might be an interesting read.
>Ovid - Ars Amatoria
Picked it up browsing at a bookstore.

>>8855169
>Illuminatus

My nigga

>>8871939
Or you could fucking read it and form your own goddamn opinion

>>8872599
Damn where'd you get that Sound and Fury my guy

>>8857054
Hey I'm a student and I borrow my English teachers books all the time. His book shelf is god tier, borrowed portrait from him and death of a salesman. I'm the only student who takes advantage of it

>>8872837
That's the plan. I just wanted to see what someone else thought but I appreciate your advice. I've read the first chapter and it's really good

Odense, min neger

>>8855169
The Great Gatsby
Wuthering Heights
Moby Dick

>>8872826
>rororo
What's your experience with their books? Wordsworth Classics-tier covers aside, I mean, because I like the works they offer and all, but I get the feeling they're somewhat less thorough with their proof reading than, say, Suhrkamp, Reclam, or dtv, so I was wondering how you felt they all compared.

>>8872697
blogger go fucking kill yourself
thanks

>>8861060
check out Vittorio Alfieri's autobiography
he writes about his travels in the far north of Europe
perfect if you like Sturm und Drang

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>>8855169
am I a big boy now??

>>8874400
Big for me.

>>8874400
get rid of the history of philosophy book desu. Unless you read quicker than a mofo it'd just be better off to work through the history of philosophy with that time. At least that is what you'd do if you actually want to know about philosophy but I don't mean to be condescending if you're consciously just dabbling. good stack though, it'll keep you busy for a while

>>8873223
Abebooks, playboy.

>>8873423
How many memes could a memechuck chuck if a memechuck could chuck memes

>>8860289
>Mrs. Dalloway
Ugh, I could teach an entire course on why I hate that book, but my department head is a huge Woolf fan and would never approve that.

Boston bros, where do you shop? Harvard Coop is overpriced bullshit.