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>>8945447
>unironically reading Dickens
He's a fucking chump and there are no good books he has written. How can you survive 300 pages of prose from a failed playwright?

>>8945460
Bought Oliver Twist and Treasure Island(read) for no other reason than they were on sale. Two bucks each I believe

Is it really that bad though?

>>8945468
Having released most of his works in serial, ie 10 pages a week in a newspaper, he has tried to draw out ideas and plots as long as possible. Because he was essentially payed per word

>>8945447
How about to stop fucking buying books and actually read the ones you've got instead.

>>8945542
Shut up.

>>8945619
Use your local library. 3 renewals. 9 weeks. Unlimited books. No space taken up. It's a beautiful thing.

>>8945468
don't buy books just because they are cheap my good dude, buy them because you want to read them my man, otherwise you look like a fucking mongoose

>>8945511
fuck it I started with Oliver Twist lel, seems alright to me 15 pages in, it is a classic and demands to be read, whether or not it is trash
>>8945542
fuck off faggot

4 of the books were given to me

also implying browsing and buying books is not one of the best parts of this literature related hobby of ours

>>8945632
what the fuck my man libraries take up a huge amount of space

>>8945447
Read The portrait of Dorian Gray. Probably reading Jane Austen after Nabokov will feel like reading a children's book.
I tried a few times reading Austen, it bores me to death too fast.

>>8945674
You're getting very political there.

what Idiot translation is that?

>>8945681
Constancee Garnett

>>8945668
You have to appreciate the tediousness and the gossip, you don't read Austen for the plot
And Austen isn't exactly easy either, not just because of the old timey speak, but Austen still had a good intuition of 'novelistic discourse' to use a technical term, stuff like shifting from someone's inside to an outside perspective, temporal shifts, etc.
I think she wrote good characters as well, like in P&P, I can't remember their names but there's a dry, witty father and the hysteric, gossipy housewife/daughters, an embarrassive, boring, and petty priest guy who's always strolling or talking about strolls, generally speaking they're all obviously crazy, tightly wound autists, and that speaks to me

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Here are my most recent purchases. Also picked up a 1975 publication of GR for $1 in a charity shop but that's not in the photo.

>>8945734
please post the cover OP

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>>8945945
Reading V now, pretty good. I'm prepared for there to be no cohesive story but I like Pynchon

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1/2 paid $13 for the stack

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2/2 paid $55 for the stack

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>>8945638
>also implying browsing and buying books is not one of the best parts of this literature related hobby of ours

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45 Euros. Some greek trash here too.

>>8945460
Dickens is underrated because the most well known ones aren't that great. His best are things like The Pickwick Papers and A Tale of Two Cities.

Great expectations was just dry imo and oliver twist average.

>>8945447
>brand new copies of books that have been in print for decades
You could have got all that for $21 at a used book store, cunt.

>>8947343
>caring about money
look whos all spooked out

>>8945447
M&M is based as fuck

>>8947559
Why does my phone rotate this shit every fucking time

I know I'm not the only one on this board with this problem

>>8947567
>not putting the image on your PC and re-sizing/rotating it

>>8947981
The photo is right side up in my phone. It rotates only when posted.

>>8947567
4chan strips the data from the image. When i take portrait pictures i have to go into the gallery and then rotate the picture, save it, rotate it to the proper direction then i can post it correctly. This leaves 3 copies of every picture on my phone. Well, the ones i want to post here.

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Next to the couch in my living room.

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>>8945447
recent purchases here, bookstore had a big after new years discount.

>>8946919
Thats a lot of wordsworth.

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Recent purchases after I decided to stop reading all my books as pirated pdfs. They're pretty much the only books I own other than Walden and a free Buddhist book.

>>8948937
Aside from the shitty covers they are fine when not doing translations

>>8946634
That's a really nice binding for Anna Karenina. I got a shit one with some girl with flowers. It makes it look like some romance novel or something retarded.

>>8949332
They really are but i dont like the form factor with thick books. They are small and not comfortable in my hands.

>>8949339
You have the wordsworth edition. I have the same one. The good news is that its the maude translation.

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>buying all your books at once
>not buying one or two at a time from your local bookstore so that you may increase your chances of meeting a qt literary grill who's single and wants to date a pseud-frogposter

>>8949440
>girls go to your bookstore

Your bookstore isn't /lit/ enough if it is approachable for women

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>>8949450
>girls go to your bookstore
>bookstore
>implying I only go to one bookstore and don't alternate among the various ones located throughout NW DC
>implying all the bookstores I go to aren't exclusively locally owned, non-corporate, which constitutes whether a bookstore is literary or not
>implying women can't be literary

>>8949476
>nw dc

kramer is an overpriced tacky shop used for first dates for vapid people in a vapid city pretending they're cultured

carpe librum has shit books

idle time books has shit books

capitol hill books has pretty good selection but is so "cute" that it's a fucking meme filled with people pretending to read while squealing "oh my god this place is adorable"

second story books is great but too "intense" for most people just browsing because of its comparatively too small of a fiction section, its antiquarian selection, and its cool but awkwardly bookish staff

fucking fight me

also dc meetup when

>>8948936
Hyperion is awesome. Know that it's only part 1 of the book, like LOTR is a book in three parts. You need the next one too to get the full story.

>>8949034
If you're new to book buying, for sure check out used book stores and thrift stores and library sales. You can get a ton of great classics and common contemporary books for really cheap.

>>8949339
Good eye. I got really lucky with that copy of Anna Karenina. I paid $3.49 for it and it costs $65 new or $35+ on eBay used. It's an Easton Press collector's edition bound in genuine leather. It's in like new condition too.

http://www.eastonpress.com/prod/3B7/2720007/Leo-Tolstoy-s-ANNA-KARENINA

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>>8946909
I like you

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>>8949493
>fucking fight me
>also dc meetup when

This week? I'm down.

>>8949926
I actually would be too. Met one of my good buddies through lit and he may be interested, too.

Any ideas on time/place? I just railed against Kramer's as a bookstore, but it's inoffensive as a bar. Definitely open to other suggestions though.

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>>8950015
Yeah, Thursday or Friday work best for me.

Here's my throwaway: [email protected]

I've never actually been inside the bar portion of Kramer, so that might work. Or maybe we could hit up a museum or something, it doesn't matter to me.

>>8947994
Based stack desu.

>>8950050
Just emailed you. Forgot to mention it there, but Thursday/Friday work fine for me.

>>8946909
>also implying browsing and buying books is not the most cancerous parts of this literature related hobby of ours

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>>8945447

>wordsworth

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Picked these up today. Did I get memed?

>>8948936
The only Hyperion worth mentioning on a literature board is the one by Hölderlin

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All aboard semester two. Just fuck my shit up.

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>>8947994
>The Inferno
>THE
I feek sick now

>>8945945
Enjoy The Leopard!

Fucking fags with shiny ass fuckign books

I go through antiquarian/second-hand bookshops and have none of these flashy VINTAGE COLLECTIONS

got some fucking books that have orange papers and are from the 1890s though

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Charity shop finds from yesterday

>>8950968
>not the one by Keats

Dans les poubelles

Do none of you read anything but fiction?
>>8950979
Interesting, what are you specializing in? Texas criminal law? Gonna be a prosecutor or?

>>8951031
It's still the first year so all of these classes are manditory. I'd like to do inteectual property and such. Help out all the programmers, decals, and musicians.

But hey, con and crim law are interesting. I could change my mind.

>>8951033
>inteectual property and such
I had to read about IPs & copyrights related to biological artificial and non-artificial cells and man-made creations in my introduction class, it was some deep fucking shit, thank god its over.

>>8951041
That was a fun case. The guy who made a cell? And it's sister case where the guy sues the hospital for using his cells for research without his consent? It's so silly, I love it.

But really programmers and musicians are who I want to work with most.

>>8951090
I'm not from the USA so I have no idea what you are talking about, kek. Studied in Binland.

>>8951031
OP here, I'm also reading a few Essays out of the Federalist Papers a day and reading a history book on Japan but did not include these in the OP pic.

>>8951027
Nice finds anon

Try the Idiot. It seems about appropriate for you.

>>8950269
Just emailed you back.

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Recent purchases. R8 and Appreci8

>>8952026
kys

>>8947319
>A Tale of Two Cities
but thats his best known novel

>>8952026
That's a nice copy of MD :)

ITT: Untouched copies of Ulysses and Moby Dick with flawless spines.

Nice to know y'all read.

>>8952317
Yeah stacks means unread

welcome to 4chan, newfag

>>8946919
>a Dune prequel
>two copies of Portrait
wtf are you doing?

>>8952026
>Annotated Student's Edition of Ulysses
>aesthetic Moby Dick
I am jelly

>>8952317
This is legit a thing in the bookshelf thread but posting it here? Anon you dumb.

>>8951663
Thanks. Gunna get into Nostromo first. Of Conrad I've only read Heart of Darkness before.

Dunno what to expect with 'The Stars my Destination'. I read 'Demolished Man' and enjoyed it but I was much younger.

Never read anything by Murakami before.

>>8952336
>Yeah stacks means unread
no it means a stack of books

i have stack of books that i'm reading next to me

they are worn out from reading
they are not PRIMA QUALITY 100 VINTAGE TOP 90001 KOLLEKTION #1 EDITION *dusts on the spines* books

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>>8946919
>actually displaying the wordsworth edition of C&P on your shelf

what's master and margarita like?

>>8952446
not him, but every single person showing off a stack in this thread bar three states they are 'recent purchases' and you're complaining about untouched books.

do you have autism?

>>8952317
Since they are recent purchases, I have not got around to reading them yet, which is why the spines are intact :)

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>>8945542
not having enough books to read through rahowa

>>8952465
Yes I have autism.

>recent purchases.
Makes you think, no? That nobody ever posts "stacks of read books" that every person that reads has at any time.

>>8945447
Sound and Fury is a meme. Don't read it.

Moby Dick is a true classic. Anything Dostoyevsky is worth reading 5 times.

>>8946634
Throw Pride and Prejudice in the trash then devour the rest. Nice stack

>>8952855
>Sound and Fury is a meme. Don't read it.
10/10 made me rage. Oddly you're right about Moby Dick though.

>>8952855
>Anything Dostoyevsky is worth reading 5 times.
I wish non Russians would shut the fuck about his bad books already

>>8952857
Everyone seems to have read it, and I saw it like new in hardback so I grabbed it. Really into the trash?

What about the other female works I often see: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma?

>>8946634
anna karenina is great, enjoy anon.

What I don't understand though is how is flowers for algernon that big? I read it online but it seemed too short for solo-publication.

>>8953134
Flowers for Algernon is short, but it's not that short. It's a bit longer than the first Harry Potter book, and more than twice as long as The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Is it possible you read an abridged version?

>>8953179
hmm actually that could be a possibility.I'd had it recommended by a friend who said it was "short" so I googled it and just read some pdf. Don't remember exactly how long it was.

I'll have to find the full text thanks anon.

>>8952317
Do all you fuckers crack the fuck out of the spines on your books? I have one cracked spine and my whole bookshelf and it's cracked because I traveled with it for a few months. Learn how to read without opening the pages at a 250 degree angle.

>>8952947
Dont listen to that fag. Pride and prejudice is great. I haven't read the others you mentioned but i did read middlemarch and it's also fantastic.

>>8945460
>hasn't read David Copperfield

>>8952733
The only time I have a stack of read books is when I move or reorganize my bookshelves. Hell stacks of unread recent purchases last a few hours at most before they get shelved.

Right now I have a grand total of three books off my shelves, I'm reading two and one just came in the mail today and I've been too lazy to put it away.

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>>8945447