Recent Purchases Thread

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>>9342290
How pedestrian.

>>9342290
good adorno, good milton, worst ulysses. get gabler. nothing to say on the rest

>>9342290
What the fuck is this Andrew?
You have the taste of a fucking 15 year old

>>9342337
What's wrong with that Ulysses?

>>9342337
>get gabler
W E W
E
W

>>9342396
Ugly as fuck
Also the Yes is a bit heavy handed

>>9342290
How much for the stack, my dude?

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>>9342337
>Gabler corrects hundred of Joyce punctuation errors.

>Joyce punctuation errors

>>9342411
I think it was 75. So not bad tbqhwyfam.

>>9342431
Kek

>>9342436
How much is that in Groite Bri'ish Paunds me mate?

>>9342456
60ish I think.

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R$24.50 (reais, Brazil's currency), something like $8. The history book was half of it. I know you Americans are accustomed to buying way better editions for like $1 on library and yard sales, but these prices I got are really rare around here. It was a great deal in my opinion.

Reading "Diary of a Nobody" right now. It's a nice little book, light and funny, but probably not an actual classic.

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>>9342290
I am currently reading Crime & Punishment, but I will eventually finish all of these. I read The Iliad and The Odyssey a few years ago, but they warrant a reread; I am almost finished with Sherlock Holmes; and I know the Septuagint isn't the optimal translation, but I do like looking at the side-by-side comparison of the Greek and English translations.

>>9342323
$7 canadian btw

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>>9342396
>>9342409
Christ those editions are painful to see.

What's worse is a fantastic Shakespear & Co. first edition replica was put out by Dover around the same time. It has great oversized dimensions, retains the original errors (which had been hard to find up until that point), and has the iconic deep sea blue-green cover with the just the big Ulysses and Joyce's name.

In every bookstore in my metropolitan area they stocked the replicas for about year, then they displaced them for that Vintage one. Ayayay.

>>9342396
Also I haven't looked into the specs of that edition but it's good practice to stay away from "the corrected text" that was edited in the 80s and since been published in a few different editions.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce-back.html

>>9342631
Nah this is the unabridged one, not the 80's one.

>>9342593
Beautiful editions, anon.

What's the translation for the Iliad/Odyssey?

>>9342602
i prefer the original with all it's 'mistakes'

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I'm going to finish with the Greeks, I swear.

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>>9342846
>gets printed by a bunch of frogs who can't speak English and get shit wrong
>Joyce works personally with a bunch of scholars to go through and fix it to the way he wanted it to be
>faggot teenagers in 2017 think the version with all the shit Joyce wanted fixed is more "pure"
>meanwhile paint chewing retards think a puffed up egotistical professor's personal "corrections" are worth anything
How could such a beautiful book be surrounded by so much bullshit?

>>9342290
>when you're finally getting to modern times
>The Epic of Gilgamesh
I lolled

>>9343000
>the stand
i've always just wanted to read about whatever the hells going on in the cover and spine.

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Right two are new. Left stack was from a second hand place but appear to be unread, just have names or messages written inside them, the old lady at the counter was frothing at the gash over my finds

>>9343054
I'm only read 120 pages so far. People can shit on King all they want but his ability to flesh out a character is top notch.

>>9342290
gilgamesh is great

read it first obviously, since its the first literature thing

>>9342720
The Translation was done by Samuel Butler; I also have an older Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore.

Sorry for the late reply.

>>9343000
I was given The Stand a long time ago, and yet I have never read it in its entirety. I know it is supposed to be one of Stephen King's better works, but is it really worth finishing? If not, it is just going to go with the rest of the pile for store credit.

>>9343246
stick with Lattimore
>>9343251
If it isn't entertaining you or otherwise keeping your interest then drop it. It's Stephen King, not Dante.

>>9343000

Why do so many people on /lit/ read Schopenhauer. What makes him so good?

>>9343267
Thank you for the advice. I'll probably still read the Butler translation for the Odyssey (I have no other translation), What is the difference between the two though? Is Samuel Butler less akin to the original?

>>9342290
I'd only need to learn Ancient Greek if I had copies of Ancient Greek texts, and I haven't had any luck with that.

>>9342396
Nothing it's the best one to read (1961 corrected text). Don't listen to this guy about the Gabler, it's a contrarian opinion. Nice Adorno + Faulkner btw.

Picked up The Prague Cemetary by Umberto Eco and Epicurean Simplicity by Stephanie Mills.

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Value Village had a sale.

>>9343761

>Buying DVDs in this day and age

We have BDs you caveman.

>>9343761
w2c that matrix book?

>>9342602
Holy shit, I've been looking for something like this for ages. Thank you.

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Got these over the weekend.

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>>9343761
>two copies of Hamlet
>Matrix DVD

>>9343000
is the schopenhauer one a translation of Handschriftlicher Nachlass or Parerga/Paralipomena?

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top: stuff i picked up at a few second hand shops
bottom: some books left by a previous occupant that i found in a shed

>>9344333
and by the way, I can read these all in about two days.

>>9342593
Barnesandnoblefag

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3 bucks each on my local goodwill store.
Pretty happy with Dante, it's like 730 pages long. I'm sure it will be useful for when I attempt to read the Comedy.

>>9344336
okay wew lad I believe you

>>9343761
Why did you censor the bottom portion of top DVD? Are you gay?

>>9344336
Did you forgot to put your fedora in the photo?

>>9343373
Butler is in prose

>>9344336

no you can't.

>>9342290
>History of Political Philosophy

I dunno, bro. That just seems like a monumental waste of time.

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>>9344333
>>9344336

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Book about modern rhetoric, the castle and the process. At a cheap price aswell.

I went to Waterstones today and just couldn't do it. £8 for a paperback (which I don't like at the best of times), more often than not with an ugly fucked up print or £15-20 circa hardcover. I'm going to power through some shit I've avoided reading for ages then just go on Amazon.

I've never managed to find a used book shop local to me in the UK and car boots/charity shops always suck.

>>9344839
>snacka snyggt

lol that language sounds ridiculous
shiggy diggy scooby doo

>>9344860
I know how it feels.
Im at Fort Hood, and the closest used book store is 50 miles away.

>>9344839

I have that same edition of Processen, but my Slottet is shitter. Bra val.

>>9343359
the fact that he's spot on on most topics

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>>9342290
good on you for trying to learn ancient greek
+paradise lost, gilgamesh
>>9342323
+willy shakes
>>9342593
+middle three

>>9345134
If you're interested in annotated bibles check out the norton critical one. Bretty gud.

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>>9344462
>>9344839
Oh shit, is this a thread for scandifags now??
Recently bought Dante myself but I want to finish The Iliad and Then the Odyssey first.
And how do they even translate Kafka's The Castle? Like the unfinished or broken/incorrect sentences, do they guess at appropriately Swedish errors?

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>>9345810

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Just got one book.
I've got like 6 other books that I'm currently reading, and will end up get to pic related sometime in may or june.

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Heard about it, then saw it at a local book store and picked it up

What am I in for?

>>9343398
how much did you get that morals and dogma for?

>>9346064
A dollar at a garage sale.

>>9346072
fuck. ive seen those editions go for like a hundred bucks. i want one just to have the reference for scotish rite rituals but never felt like spending the money.

>>9346083
Amazon has some fairly cheap ones.

>>9346059
Slave morality.

>>9346102
yeah paperbacks doe

>>9346202
Written by an emperor to himself? Interesting

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>>9346247
Here are some for 9 bucks

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Currently reading Notes from the Unterground
I thought this was just a /lit/-meme book

>>9346255
Don't listen to this guy. Marcus is compassionate and kindhearted, hence "slave-morality". Which is a stupid thing to say. He's a man of immense integrity.

>>9346464
Isn't that exactly what slave morality is, though?
Keep in mind that the degeneracy and fall of the Roman empire started with him.

>>9343398
The Tunnel is one of the worst books that is critically acclaimed. Have fun reading the first hundred pages, hating it, and giving it up.

>>9344839
((Kafka))

19th century hunter life in the Siberia, nonfiction

gr8 shit

>Among the Thugs
>Infinite Jest
>Less than Zero
>The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
>Ham on Rye
>Blood Meridian
>The Long Day Wanes

>>9342323
Dude, don't read that edition of King Lear. Get the Arden one.

>>9347329
Why? Because it isn't split into Acts and uses the quarto version?

how to spot pseuds: they don't know gabler is the only legible ulysses

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>>9342602

This is the best one now. Cover is ugly af, but the text is a facsimile.

>>9344328
I really e joyed the snows of Kilimanjaro the happy life of Francis mcom er is Good.if you like Hemingways shorty stories read likenick Adams stories

>Aeneid
>Metamorphoses
>Histories
>Tragedies by Aeschylus
>De rerum natura
>The Canterbury Tales
>Faust

t. fell for the Classics meme

>>9342591
R$24.50 in all that? Damn.

>>9343142
I am frothing at my face gash. Dat Frost and Faulkner

>>9343761
Get that sweet buy 4, get 1 free deal?

>>9344336
live stream or your claim is null

>>9346481
That's not what Russel Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix taught me.

>>9342290
>Ador-
No

>>9347690
Cada livro da Penguin foi R$3 e o sobre a Renascença foi R$12.50.
Só conheço um sebo com esses preços pra livros em inglês, por isso tento ir lá pelo menos uma vez por semana.

É brasileiro também, meu camarada? Comprou algum livro recentemente?

>>9344333
>>9344336


lel, it's the same tripqueer with the Autism library. Why dont you rearrange youe shelves? lmao

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>>9344839
>SNACKA SNYGGT

>>9347506
>Wii U
>Ps4
>Personafag
>Dostoevsky

We are like two halves of a whole.

>>9347788
Sou sim. Onde fica tal sebo?

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>>9347788
>>9347888
I believe you stumbled onto the wrong mongolian cartoon board, we only speak english here senpai.

>>9347910
t. monolingual brainlet

>>9347888
No Centro do Rio. Você é de onde?

>>9347910
Aparentemente você está errado, senpaiília. Veja só, eu estou nesta tábua falando português. Que coisa, não?

>>9347956
Qual o nome do sebo, diabos?

>>9347960
De onde você é, demônios?

>>9343142
You seem well-rounded, well-read, and probably girls let you cum inside them after 2 dates

>>9347738
You know it nigga

>>9347637
How is the modern library edition? I picked it up but havent read it yet.

>>9343458
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library

>>9344424
Look at you go, champ.

For your information: there are zero bookstores in the "city" I live in.

>zero

Nada.

I either have to drive 2 hours to the nearest city to buy books, or I can buy them online.

>>9348638
I feel your pain anon
I come from that kind of town, but luckily there were some antiquarians and a Salvation Army, stuff like that, where people dropped off books and I found plenty of classics and other interesting ones, I suspect it might be because there weren't many other collegefags like me to come pick them up like in a big city.
Ridiculously cheap, too, but if you can't find any of this there are always private listings who are always definitely worth checking out. The real gold is when you have a recently widowed lady with a late /lit/ husband, it's happened to me twice and both times I walked away with an assload of books they wanted rid of.

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A "friend" borrowed my copy of Ariel and lost it.

plz no bully for Rupi Kaur

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>>9348864

>Rupi Kaur

Taking all my effort not to bully you right now to be honest senpai.

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>>9348864
>reading rupi "my vagina" kaur

>>9345003
Finns det några böcker av svenska författare som du har att rekommendera?

>>9342290
>Buying physical books
> wasting money
> wasting space
> let's everyone know what a pretentious douche you are

Tell me /lit/ why don't come into the 21st century with the Ipad

>>9350420
Get over yourself you utter fuckwit. You're the "pretentious douche" if anyone is with your fashionista tablet crap. I literally cannot imagine a worse way to read a book.

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>not making use of your local library

P.S. i am white it is poor lighting

>>9348638
Those are still shitty flashy Barnes and Noble editions tho.

>>9347637
I actually really like that cover. Vintage is my favorite publisher next to Norton Critical.

>>9350661
>i am white it is poor lighting
>he has to specify his skin color

lmao it's so embarassing to care for something like that

>>9350835
I spent too much time on /int/

>>9350661
no one would ever mistake your pasty ass for not-white

>>9342290
>modern times
>Gilgamesh

>>9350661
my local library is trash. all of the books i'd check out are in the central library downtown.

>>9350886
My library let's me order from any others within the city, you don't have something like this?

>>9344328
>The Neverhood
nice

>>9348864
who the fuck genuinely reads both Kaur and Rilke

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$12, r8

>>9344000
>Conspiracy Fiction
Noice

>Metamorphosis by Kafka
>Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematorium by Caitlin Dougty
>The Vital Question by biochemist Nick Lane

I try to keep it a bit varied.

>>9350420
Not that guy you're replying to, but maybe people just like collecting books and enjoy their aesthetics?

>>9348105
Same thing, but with an added letter by Joyce and a a foreword by someone who defended his book which is legendary in its own right.

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>>9347956
>>9347960
E assim, os filhos da puta terminaram não falando o nome do lugar, jamais saberei. Eu sou do Rio também, a quem possa interessar.

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Am I a fucking pleb?

>>9351691
I will never understand this board's use of the word pleb. By all rights you're a fucking genius. Actual plebs read footballer biographies and read fifty shades of grey.

>>9351705
This.

>>9342290
Never buy paperbacks. Now leave.

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>>9348864
Is this the reading list of the ""females"" on this board I was told about?

The entirety of the Riftwar cycle
>tfw 30 books and nowhere to put them

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>>9351601
Deve ser o Berinjela, mas não tenho certeza. Cuzão esse anão que ficou guardando segredo.

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Found this winner the other day for $0.99, it's a 1939 print in very good condition.

>>9351705

>buys books he's never going to read
>by all rights you're a fucking genius

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>>9345134
i hope you put half as much effort into reading these as you did making sure you got the right editions

>>9345817
interesting

>>9346457
awful

>>9347306
even worse

>>9347506
you're not going to finish either of these

>>9348864
tolerable, far better than most

>>9350661
clean your nails

>>9351104
boring

>>9351671
ugh

>>9350661
You are not white, you're neon

>>9344333
>Everything Illuminated


dear god throw it away

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I'm doing self directed research on Shamanism, hence my purchases. The one book with the spine facing the other way is a Voynich Manuscript analysis from the NSA written in the 70s.

>>9352440
ugh

>>All those consumerists showing off >> fetishising a book, implying it has value as a physical product

>>9354263
>its a Marxist gets upset people are freely doing what they want episode

>>9354316
Recognise consumerism => Marxist.
Buy yourself a brand new rope and kys

>>9342323
Nicely bent spines... got your money's worth

>>9354263
>People on a literature board sharing what they recently purchased.

>Consumerist scum.

>>9354440
Literature is the art of purchasing and storing books.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/T-W-Evans-Cordage-30-003-3-8-Inch-by-600-Feet-Pure-Number-1-Manila-Rope-New-/191928184550?nav=SEARCH

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Got the bottom two for less than $10, and the Hemmingway is apparently the 1954 edition. The Vegetarian was full price but I'm trying to read more current fiction

>>9343000
>schopenhauer
>conspiracy against the human race
>stephen king
hmm

>>9352440
>poor fellow my country
goddamn

whats it like?

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gotta say it was a good day

Of Mice and Men
Animal Farm
Anthem
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Jewish Mystique
Crime and Punishment
Basic Economics in One Lesson
The Law
Road to Serfdom
The Real Lincoln

Just getting into reading again, haven't read many great books just shit in High School.

>>9351104
>$12

why lie? what endgame are you trying to achieve here?

>>9354145
very interesting topic. i wanna start looking into writing on psychedelics/shamanism at some point. i've done a good amount of different substances, but i'd have to say the most interesting was nn-DMT for just how powerful and strange it is. definitely need to try it another time though.

>>9346457
I finished it today myself. Related way too closely to the underground man.

>>9352440
>Roopi Kow
>tolerable, far better than most
Kill you are self to be quite honest family

>>9352534
Good Old

>>9349226
Why even bother with Mein Kampf if you can't read the German critical edition? My bet is you'll STRUGGLE to finish that poorly written Hetzschrift and that you'd have been better off finding a collection of his speeches.

>>9356016
It's true, I bought them from a friend who's trying to get rid of some of his books

>>9342323
signet classics my man? that's fucking jay-walking.

>>9351374
>>9348105

The Vintage Classics edition also contains this.

>>9345095
Yeah, that's specific.

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>>9355269
>hmm

Problem?

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>>9343359

1) Schopenhauer is the main gateway to Nietzsche
2) He is an incredibly persuasive/seductive ambassador for the pessimistic worldview (popular in the modern day and 4chan alike)
3) He wasn't a bullshitter like Hegel
4) Building on #3, his corrections to Kant's philosophy are on point
5) Along with Kant, he's one of the best ambassadors for Transcendental Idealism
6) Unlike most German Idealists/Philosophers, and indeed Philosophers in general, his writing style is very concise and lucid
7) He wrote on a wide range of topics, and in the aphoristic form, meaning you don't need to 'commit' to his works (you can dip in and out/etc)
8) He's genuinely likeable in his own way. Funny too, and memeable. Relatable to much of 4chan.

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Got these from Thriftbooks. I'm still waiting on a few more. I had to replace my stolen copy of The Great Gatsby but I plan on rereading it at some point.

I'm also excited to reread C&P in the P&V translation. Everything else in this haul are first-time reads. I think I'm going to tackle The Stranger first after I finish The Sun Also Rises.

>>9359474

Thanks.

>>9359474
you should add that he articulates the anti-intellectualist view much more strongly than his fellow idealists who take it for granted

therefore it's helpful to understand what exactly Schopenhauer is going on about before you go all sneer culture on the other idealists or on Evola

>>9359422

ur an edgy underaged misanthrope lol

I just bought these at Barnes & Noble this afternoon:

>It by Stephen King
>Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass
>The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
>Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur
>Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
>The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

I absolutely hate long books but I figure I'd read It since the new movie is coming out.

>>9359970
Go back

>>9359970
gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8

>>9360057
Go back where? Is this not a place to discuss books and reading?

>>9360066
This isn't bate...

What's wrong with anything I bought? John Green and Stephen King are two of the best authors from this era and Rupi Kaur is one of the most profound modern poets. Let me guess, you only read ~the classics~, right?

>>9359970
>I just bought these at Barnes & Noble

Nice way to blow $100 on 6 books

>>9360186
did u get urself a pumpkin spice latte at barnes and noble

>>9359970
Wonderful!

>>9342323
That Huxley book is shit though kek

>>9360201
Why would I spend my money on ratty old books with broken spines when I can easily afford pretty new ones?

>>9360204
No.

>>9360223
Thanks, but I'm pretty sure you're trolling. :/

Anyone else is interested in George Macdonald?

>>9360253
Post body part with timestamp or stop posting.

>>9360266
>George Macdonald
there are very nice hand-bound editions of his works sold in the US, i bought a fairy tale in case i ever have kids

otherwise nope, his writing doesnt compel like chesterton's

i realze i dont have a purchase to add to this thread. i bought a lot of books recently but they havent arrived yet. Goethe, Garcia Marquez, some stuff from Telos Press

google it/picture it in your head

>>9360274
Fuck off.

>>9360293

Now, among the many men of genius Scotland produced in the nineteenth century, there was only one so original as to go back to this origin. There was only one who really represented what Scottish religion should have been, if it had continued the colour of the Scottish medieval poetry. In his particular type of literary work he did indeed realize the apparent paradox of a St. Francis of Aberdeen, seeing the same sort of halo round every flower and bird. It is not the same thing as any poet’s appreciation of the beauty of the flower or bird. A heathen can feel that and remain heathen, or in other words remain sad. It is a certain special sense of significance, which the tradition that most values it calls sacramental. To have got back to it, or forward to it, at one bound of boyhood, out of the black Sabbath of a Calvinist town, was a miracle of imagination.

t. Chesterton

>>9360253
>Why would I spend my money on ratty old books with broken spines when I can easily afford pretty new ones?

You can buy books on ebay or thriftbooks in great condition for like $4.

>>9360405
I bought the Illiad from thriftbooks because I had to read the shitty book for a uni class and it was falling apart. It was listed as "acceptable". I learned my lesson and just buy new books from now on. I can afford it so why not.

>>9360533

Acceptable means shit
Very Good means okay
Fine or Near Fine means like new

Post feet pls.

>>9360533
acceptable is literally the lowest tier for used books.

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No memes but plz bully

>>9360668

Actually the most patrician picture in this thread

Speaking of recent purchases...

I was actually at Barnes and Noble yesterday - one of the few B&N left in my area, but I don't mind because it's a tasteful and spacious venue located in a very nice open-air mall, and the B&N store itself has a whole Starbucks inside it located on the second floor - to purchase some paperbacks since I absolutely loathe ebooks.

The girl working one of the checkout counters, which, fortunately, was open when it came time for me to check out, was remarkably young and beautiful in a very classical and timeless way. She had a delightsome countenance and looked literally like a painting come to life. For the first time in a long while, I felt a spark of excitement over the possibility that a person like this worked in a bookstore and had, ostensibly, some measure of appreciation and fondness for literature.

But then, when I plopped down my modest stack of three books in front of her so she could scan them, she made no comment on my (rather impressive) selection of literature. She barely maintained eye contact, and didn't even bother returning my smile or my "hello." She only scanned my books robotically and asked if I had a membership. It was then that I realized she was probably just another airheaded bimbo who stumbled into the job because she needed money, and yet another tiny part of my soul died.

>>9360668
I would be friends with you :3

>>9360701
lol, shut up nerd.

>>9360697
>>9360715
Thanks 4 all the gold senpai

>>9359477
pretty well-rounded overall. All good shit.

>>9359970
Either b8 or r/books trash

>>9355909
Nice haul. Did you get these at Goodwill, anon? Last weekend I bought 11 books for $16 there.

>>9342323

>'How pedestrian'
>Reads Aldous Huxley

This board needs to collapse.

>>9342290

>Buys Paradise Lost
>Doesn't buy the better version, Paradife Loft

Disappointed in you OP.

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>>9344839

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>>9350661
>Yellow.
>White.

T. Chang Wang.

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Just bought these but now I've reading about Assyrian religion and want to get the Epic of Gilgamesh.

There's too much religion to learn about! I'm still on the Bible, just ordered a bunch of of different translations to help with my study of it. Gonna try and stay focused and only move onto hinduism and the Assyrians later.

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Not apurchase but teacher let me borrow this

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hey guys
i payed a money
got a thing
its got some stuff written in it
might read it

>>9363289
wtf I hate capitalism now!

>>9363366
I think the point is more that anyone at all can buy these things.

Any fat guy can buy a gym membership and then just not use it.

The real deal is not showing what you bought but showing how upu benefitted from its purchase.

>>9344333
Does your edition of Magister Ludi / Das Glasperlenspiel have "The Poems" and "The Three Lives"?