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Every fucking time.

I'm curious on "vocabulary Expander." What exactly is it? A thesaurus with commentary?

It's to help with Hemingway

Can I get some feedback?

Total cost < $10

It looks like you're reading books that interest you; good. It can be just as, if not more, rewarding that exclusively focusing on the Important Literature.

woke.

where

50 Shades, Virgin Wolf, Auster library sale $.75
Hume Chaucer Gandhi $9 something ebay
Murakami $0 gift from my brother
Saki $0 complementary copy from the publisher

You took that picture in august m8

nice work Veeky Forums

Took this pic a while ago; only one of the bunch l've read is A Passage to India.

You rich bastard. I'm jelly.

Wanna read On the Road together, user? :3

>Saki $0 complementary copy from the publisher

HECK

How do l sign up for that? Free Everyman's?

Acquire a part-time job at a bookstore

Got a $4 War and Peace at an antique shop, 1942 Simon and Schuster print (Maude translation). Slight damage to binding and edges brown/grey, otherwise seems good.

From my used bookstore visit last weekend, but also just got a big box from the bn.com sale a few days back

And the BN delivery

Sweet everyman's. Cool selection overall.

>Fifty Shades of Gray

Pourquoi?

You're an idiot

Picked this up on Monday.

Sweet, I'm always a sucker for nice box sets.

Some were gifts, most were purchases. I feel weird about reading poetry in translation but even so, Approximate Man has become a favorite

Going on vacation, going to order some books when I get back
Faust
Man and his symbols
12 rules of life: an antidote to chaos
Maps of meaning
What else should I get?
So going to a local bookstore to find some goodies.

The Master and Margarita

The Kalevala

Description is right up my alley, thank you for the rec.
Any particular translation I should grab and also is the writer finnish?
I think the only other Finnish author I've read is mika waltari

lmao

Yes he is finnish and the oxford worlds classics version is good.

very jealous of the guilloux blood dark

Dude right? I'm on the nyrb email list and literally got the email about its publication like 3 days before finding a brand new copy in a used bookstore for like $6.

Have fun

Nice Loeb Ovid but fuck Aristotle's metaphysics that might be the most tedious book I've ever read, more so than Kant who at least has interesting concepts

Culture of Critique

>You rich bastard. I'm jelly.
Folios aren't that expensive. Just get them second-hand or during sales (they go down 40-80%).

Yeah I've heard a few people on lit say it was the most annoying/difficult text they've ever read. I'm hoping to have slowly built up to it, as I've been reading his complete works from start to finish, and am pretty comfortable in his method, his ideas (at least generally), and my approach to his texts/secondary commentaries.

Frankly I'm more apprehensive of Aquinas' ~700 page commentary on the metaphysics, which I imagine will take me like a month to get through.

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What is the top book?

It's a pop culture artifact, I can probably read it in ~2 sittings, and it was brand new and unread for only 25 cents.

B R O S

K A R A M A Z O V

It's Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami

>I can probably read it in ~2 sittings
>666
Don't do it.

>still cluttering your life with physical copies of books

user throw them all out and move into new century

Get thee behind me, Satan.

Second for M&M, pretty great book and honestly pretty funny.

Still need to get a copy of Heart of a Dog, it's supposed to be similar.

check'd

keep fighting the good fight

Found these at a bookfest today.

Keep Chaucer and burn the rest.

25 cents each

You overpaid

I would've done the same

All the threads seem boring right now, so I'll here's some book porn (got all of these (except for philosophy in the last week and a half)): 1/?

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Fuck me I'll stop, I don't know how I didn't realize they were upside down. I'm a faggot.

You recently bought all these books? That's more than I could read in a year.

Ya I'm hoping to start a used bookstore in a coffee shop that only sells good books at internet prices (5 dollars a book) there are more, I just got annoyed that they were upside down. Not much profit in it, but it will hopefully bring likeminded people together for a good cause, then again, if it doesn't work out, I have plenty to read for a while

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It's a toby mug you plebe.

Nice covers.

Aside from tedious pages that amount to 'god is my friend :3' Life of Pi is enjoyable.

From sheer volume, you have some good books.

>philo and plotinus
fucking nice, I have both those books. found Plotinus in a used bookstore in perfect condition for cheap, probably the most happy I've been to find a book.

East Village Books?

lmao faggot

all trash besides chaucer

shit taste.

pretty bad

nyrb is kinda memey but at least its not raw sewage like the others

better than most

awful

Nice, I just bought those except Pickwick Papers last weekend. They were the only Dickens books I could tolerate despite reading a dozen in high school.

>nyrb is kinda memey
in what way? I've never read them.

Vida de Jesus - Plínio Salgado
Os lusíadas - Camões (fac-simile primeira edição.)

Anauê, camaradas.

Hows life in Australia

it's super hipstery, like, 'nobody reads this so therefore its cool'
some of the stuff they publish is actually good, but a lot of it is just neglected works of popular authors or some random woman that one of their employees probably wrote a thesis on. that's their thing, and it's fine, but if you're reading a ton of nyrb books you're probably getting a substandard exposure to literature.

Love it

B-be nice, Veeky Forums
Nice editions, how old are they?
Do you study STEM? I'd start with TBK if you want to read fiction.
>On the Road
>Che
>LSD book lmao
Are you a teenager? Only thing that looks remotely interesting is the Che book, I think he reflects on his racism in that.
If Monday or Tuesday is in that Woolf book, read it. Had a great, comfy time with it.
>On the Road again lol
Hell's Angels is good, fine journalism. What's the other essays in that Camus book? MoS is quite a shit read desu
What's that Manning book?
Where's Ovid III?
Pretty af
>Cantos
Nice. I barely understood them when I read the Pisan Cantos, but it's still aesthetic to have.
I have no idea what these are about. Post about them if they're interesting.
>Fountainhead
I'm sorry, user, I...
Don't know what they are but they look nice.

Have I seen this before?
4, 7 and are good. Can't say on the rest.

>Don't know what they are but they look nice.

Jesus's life - Plínio Salgado.
I think the title it's very enlightening. Plínio is the founder of Integralism (it's like brazilian fascism) and in this book he talk about the life of Jesus.

Os lusíadas - Camões
That's the the most important work of Portuguese literature.

Dont see much Auster love on Veeky Forums

our love is inaustere

$1.25 is not too bad for Cat's Cradle. Let's act like the rest never happened.

noice
make sure to get your hands on the follow up to The Balkan Trilogy, The Levant Trilogy
great purchases
imo tho Cioran's more distinctly non-buddhist work is much much better, if you like TTWBB make sure to get short history of decay
I have the same edition of Darconville's Cat with almost identical wear on the spine what the fuck
make sure to get "A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound" by Carroll Terrell, its almost essential
meh
a steal for 25 cents each tho
>hardcover carpenter's gothic
>hardcover europe central
im cumming
thats my favourite edition of gravity's rainbow, but even with special care it won't last three rereads

im gonna make all y'all fucker's jealous as hell

I found this for 20 dollars US

fuck you

Spent about 40 bucks on these

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Very good deal.

Are you a girl?

isn't the green catechism the inferior first edition?

second story books in DC

That's the whole point though isn't it? I don't need a publisher to tell me about Dickens, but if it weren't for nyrb I would never have found, e.g., Zweig or von Rezzori. They publish a fair bit of stuff that outright has no appeal to me, but of the books that they publish which also sound interesting to me, very few have been disappointing/unfulfilling, although I've certainly had a few of those.

Manning is a novel trilogy. Probably won't start it for a while, but it's caught my eye often enough that I wanted to pick it up for later. Ovid 3 and 4 are Metamorphoses, which I already have.

Have you read Manning? How is she? Also yeah I just started Cioran yesterday and was definitely not expecting his style; I thought it would be more of a treatise. Enjoying it so far, honestly only picked it over Short History because Being Born sounded more pessimistic with a better title.

Sweet W&M find btw.