recent purchases thread? rate if you feel like it.

>>9543214
oh that's the complete works of mark twain in the background if you were curious. not a recent purchase but it made it in the picture.

>An American reading American po-mo trash.

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>>9543214
>Ramcharit manas.
Well done.

ढोल, गवार,शूद्र, पशु नारी सकल ताड़ना के अधिकारी।
Drum, uneducated,low castes,animals and women are always deserving of a tounge lashing.

t. Tamil Vaishnav Brahmin that likes to annoy liberals on the Internet.

Though in all seriousness OP don't read Tulsidas's version of our epic.
It's not exactly suitable for anybody but people from India's northern central parts.
You should go for either Valmiki's original or R.K. Narayan's modern one.

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If anyone got genuine questions about hindu mythology, literature or whatever else in Shri Vaishnav tradition, bump the thread with it until I come back in the morning and answer.

Gotta sleep 11:30 P:M here.
Btw here is link for R.K Narayan's Ramayan https://www.amazon.com/Ramayana-Shortened-Version-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143039679

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Left is Fukazawa Shichirō's The Ballad of Narayama, I think. (Google isn't much help)
The right is Yasunari Kawabata's "The lake". Got this one as a gift

r8?

>>9543491
i don't know either book so i r8 u good job m9

>>9543491
hey you're that Hungarian that keeps posting books here

keep it up, they're good

>>9543553
[E-fame intensifies]
I like the stuff I get.
Most of it is dirt cheap.
How much do you yankees pay for books?

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Not bad for $20

>>9543850
Just read "Notes from the Underdog" last month. I highly recommend it.
Kind of connected with me.
I rarely have this with books

>>9543800
not a yankee desu

typically £7 for 'small' books and £15 for 'large' ones at my local bookstore

>>9543948
to add, in pristine and new condition

there's a secondhand section where most books are under £5

>>9543948
Are those used prices?
They seem a bit excessive for used books.
What am I saying? These prices are ludicrous!

>>9543962
not used, pristine

I just bought
Inherent Vice
Forbidden Colours
The Left Hand of Darkness

I'm enjoying Forbidden Colours, and am looking forward to Inherent Vice. I've had to put a hold on Mason & Dixon because honestly, I'm having trouble staying focused. I'm going to start with IV, then read Bleeding Edge. Does anyone have any advice from where to go from there? Should I just resume M&D?

>>9543973
The used price you said isn't much better.
At least for me.
I could buy six books from 5 pounds.
Well, when the shop owner is dumb anyways.
But you have higher wages and income so it evens out I think.

>>9543992
probably

>>9543230
>implying all po-mo isn't trash

>>9544163
You spend too much time here. There's more to discover in literature than postmodernism and the Greeks.

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>>9544173
most of my e-books i pirated aren't pomo or greek. but i'll try to get some physicals of other stuff next paycheck

>>9543850
Nice, I want to get ADA and the Niebelungenlied soon. You should make a thread once you read it.

>>9543351
What are your thoughts on Ananda K. Coomaraswamy?

>>9543850
Eyy, I bought a used copy of Malcom X's autobiograpjy as well the other day, looking forward to reading it. I also own that copy of To The Lighthouse,
I really like the cover

>>9544607
Genuine scholarly bridge between your(western) culture and mine.
Contrary to what the retarded mainstream contemptuous attitude that our independence struggle spawned.(fuck gandhi and nehru may they rot in hell for subverting hindu identity and political thought)

>>9543982
I'm reading Mason and Dixon now and I'm about half way through (its taken a couple of slow months). It is really a lovely book, don't be afraid to really sit with it and take your time.

>>9545174
you okay bud?

>>9544635
Ayyyy, not that guy but Malcolm X's autobiography is one of my favorite books. Make sure your edition has the epilogue, it's critical but some retard editions dropped it.

Not at my house rn but the next few books I want to work through are

> The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato (in spanish wish me luck)
> Aristotle's Politics
> The Shipwrecked Mind by Mark Lilla

>>9545359
not for a very long time

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> when the books arrive but the dust covers are dead

Pls kill me

>>9545929

Where did you order from? They should have stated the condition of the dustcover.

>>9545929
Hardcovercucks BTFO

>>9545929
Those are incredibly ugly editions of all those books. The Proust titles are fucked up too.

>>9543230
the only po-mo thing there is cosmicomics and it is italian

>>9545412
reddit is >that way

>>9545929
>The Sweet Cheat Gone
lmao

>>9545945
Our duplicitous deal darried long in degrading dust covers. Alas! I were fool enough, bought edition from surreptitious thought. Woe!

>>9544177
While reading LoTiT, the lit meme novel, Tao Lin was often mentioned.
Are his works any good?

>>9545174
That's a nice copy of Tristram Shandy

>>9543214
>recent purchases thread? rate if you feel like it.

I got some book on the Kenedies written before the assassination, talking about WW3 and Cold War implications, and I forgot it in a friend whom I visited that evening.

>>9547659
>forgot it in a friend whom I visited that evening
Must have been a wild night

>>9547664
Yeah, a wild night of drinking, eating, talking pseudo intellectual politics and philosophy and scientific speculation, while taking turns playing music on Youtube.
The only girl fell asleep with her head in my lap and woke up when I dropped chip dip on her, and got upset and left at like 2AM.

>>9547667
But you left a book IN your friend

>>9547673
Ooooh, thats just me not being native in english.
I suppose I should say I left it at a friend's. As in, in his apartment.

>>9547678
Doesn't matter.
I just found it funny.
And it's not like English is my native tongue either

>>9543947
do you mean Notes from the "Underground", anon?

surely you wouldnt bullshit us about reading something as complex as Dostoevsky, only to fuck up the name

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Plus glass bead game

>>9547931
>king lear

my nigga

>>9547944
Yeah a probably my favorite Shakes. Getting into the habit of buying Arden and Norten Shakespeare when I seem them used.

>>9547931
"Beware of pity" was great and also absolutely broke my heart. I think you'll like it, but it'll knock you out

>tfw I like buying books more than reading

>>9543850
Trouble in Paradise might be Zizeks best recent work. I say this without having read The Courage of Hopelessness fully yet, so take it with a grain of salt.

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R8?

This was over a couple weeks of library sales

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>>9549352
pardon the flip

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tale of genji is a two volume set btw

>>9549250

Better than Parallax or Violence ?

>>9549291

Why is Fowles Magus suddenly so popular? Is it because of Trump?

>>9549459
Why does one thing have to do with the other? I'm not even American, I just thought it seems interesting

>>9549445
Some Hindu monk who may have been a fraud sold me that same Bhagavad-gita. Do you know if it's a legit translation?

>>9549646

i think so

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad-G%C4%ABt%C4%81_as_It_Is

>>9543214
Were you on that Starship Troopers thread on /pol/ too?

>>9549445
That's the worst Hardy book

Read the Mayor of Casterbridge or Jude the Obscure. Mayor of Casterbridge is better.

>>9549459
fowles has been a sleeper meme for years

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Tell me how shit I am.
Also does /lit/ have a pre-req? I mean in the same way that Loomis is for /ic/.

>>9549663
no
>>9549459
the magus is alright, i bought the book because i thought it would be this huge mindfuck but it wasn't really, thought it was a lot more conservative actually.

>>9549966
The prerequisite is drinking a bottle of bleach. Take your shit taste elsewhere.

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I had to get moby dick for the read along

>>9550138
John Williams died the day I was born.

>>9550147
with this information I will find out where you live and have unprotected sex with your mother

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>>9549096
Do you tend to keep borrowing library books and only focusing on them as well?

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Stuff I got in the past fornight. V was a replacement from BookDepo from Feb or so.

>>9551420
>>9551425
cucks

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Top book is Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs which I have finished by now.

>>9543214
I don't know half of these but it looks like a fun blend of science fiction and spiritualism. Hope it's research for your novel.

>>9543850
Based on /lit/ recommendations? I'm sure you'll find something you like in there.

>>9544177
Something about this pisses me off so much.

>>9545929
The books look like they are taken from the spooky house set of the goosebumps tv show.

>>9549445
The non Euro centric books seem a little tagged on. Trying to broaden your horizon?

>>9549966
Disgustingly french.

>>9550138
Somewhat erotic.

>>9551420
I think you can drop Dragonball. At this point he's already adult, right? The Incal is the best book in the pile.

>>9551425
Were half of the spines designed by the same person? They give me "world bestseller" vibes.

>>9550138
When does the read along start?

>>9544253
I struggled a lot with Ada and only got through 400 pages despite loving Nabokov

>>9551769
>rated all but mine

>>9551793
Which one is yours? I probably just didn't know anything about it, sorry.

>>9551797
mine was >>9543491

>>9551798
I first wanted to say that the book on the right has a nice cover but decided against it. And Hungarian is a nice language.

>>9551425
Holy pomo.

>>9551816
>on the right
Both are pretty generic paperbacks though. The one on the right is more "uniform" though, since it lacks unique artwork. I'm reading that one now and it's amazing how well the japanese can describe sexual situations.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes books two and three-Yoshiki Tanaka
The Melancholy of Resistance-László Krasznahorkai
Woman in the Dunes-Kobo Abe
The Face of Another-Kobo Abe

Rate.
I'm making the Abe books and Melancholy part of my summer reading along with Ulysses and Moby Dick.

>>9551793
Nobody replied to mine either anon

>>9551903
I'll reply to yours.

>>9551835
Generic maybe, but kind of on point in its minimalism.
I've only read Mishima and thought he does it quite beautifully even when it's icky straight sex.

>>9551769
>/pol/ thinking some fucking graphic novel is better than Joyce or Faulkner

never change

>>9551784
June 17 I'm pretty sure it's pinned in the discord channnel

>>9552141
It's a pretty good graphic novel. Don't know what /pol/ has to do with Jodorowsky.

>>9543214
I'm reading that twin peaks book right now and it is terrible. a review I read summed it up perfectly as it shows us how awful twin peaks would be without lynch.

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Memes

>>9543850
That Zizek is really good.

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ive already read Billy Budd. I don't plan on reading Decameron anytime soon.

>>9549966
pleb-tier but you're trying. some /lit/-tier french books are Germinal, La Princesse de Cleves, & la poesie de Rimbaud. If you want mid-tier try Extension du domain de la lutte or Les fleurs du mal

>>9550138
Dick is the GOAT and makes up for the rest of your stack

>>9551420
i unironically want to read the pale king and nothing else of wallace's work

>>9551425
horrible. M&D seems like fun though and GR was pretty good.

>>9552890
throw everything away except Plato. read 5D before Republic.

>>9553155
goofy

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>>9543214
on a weird fiction kick lately

Can someone explain why on /lit/ everybody seems to read only literary fiction and philosophy and no history?

>>9551868
>Reading anime books

>>9553379
Because all the posters here are pseuds.

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I've got this classic from a present.

>>9553379
>>9553422
99.9% of history books are Whig history and therefore utterly devoid of value. It's hard to find the ones that are worth a damn, and even amongst those your attempts at understanding them will be hopeless without a proper grounding in classics/phil. The history books I read are few and far between, and the ones that I do are typically read at the university library because only certain sections are of any interest to me, and the books themselves cost exorbitant sums of money because publishers only want to print trash like A People's History of the United States, or Hillbilly Elegy.

for the record I don't quite understand those who only read literary fiction either.

>>9553451
>understanding them will be hopeless without a proper grounding in classics/phil.

Lol. History is a discipline with its own logic and methodology that has very little connection with classics or philosophy and certainly doesn't rely on those subjects in any way. You only need to have a basic working knowledge of those to understand academic history. Worthwhile history is not at all hard to find if you know what to look for.

>>9553388
>knowing it's an anime book
You goofed up.

>>9553487
>muh bodies of contingent facts

>>9553271
>goofy
I'll take that as compliment.

I rate you: beige.

>>9553323
Check out Vandermeer if you haven't already.

>>9553432
amber alert/10

>>9553639
I'll get around to it after the classics, thanks

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i dare anyone to talk shit

>>9553947
I don't have to, your stack does it for me.

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Picked these up today, first purchases in years. Figured it would be easier to read books than PDFs.

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Should I cop?

Is this a reasonable progression from Homer then Plato? Plato > Aristotle > Descartes > Hume?

Is Virgil enough to read The Divine Comedy?

>>9554514
Yeh you solid bro

>>9554514
pck up ovid too
brotip: aristotle is boring/dumb as fuck and his only work of any importance is organon

>>9554625
better read poetics if you into aesthetics

>>9554625
$70 is already expensive. I might pick it up next haul.

From my understanding you need to read Metaphysics and Ethics to understand like 90% of later philosophy, including Descartes and Hume. I thought Aristotle, after Plato was literally the groundwork for almost all later, better philosophers' work.

>>9554514

>those prices

do you not have abebooks or what?

>>9554630
plato and aristotle kinda have their own traditions, i dont think many people would consider themselves a disciple of both.

>>9551769
>>9551769
Yeah he came back from Hell in the last volume I read. I don't like it as much as I used to but it's a fast read.
You mean the Vintage? The Palahniuk ones were 50 cents each when used book stores sell most things for $9+.

>>9549366
Egil's saga is best saga. I'm fortunate enough to be able to understand it since I'm Icelandic but I've heard Old Norse is fairly simple to learn for reading, so you should do that, otherwise it loses a lot of its power.

>>9552141
Incal is a pretty top-tier comic, but it's dumb to compare comics and literature. They're different media.

>>9554804

incal isnt even the best moeb, jodorowsky is a hack