Recent Aquisitions Thread

My dad bought it decades ago, and i don't know every book in my house's small library because most of them are by literally who's, and so i didn't thought a book of that kind would be here.

>Lawrence of Arabia by Robert Payne

A decent enough book as far as these things go, but I hope you're also giving Lawrence's own "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" a read. It is very, very good.

That's why I am just going to read from a ereader. Having books just takes up to much space. I only buy physical books for textbooks and language books.

Anons, what are the good versions of Gravity's Rainbow? I remember one has errors.

The recent printing is fine, they fixed it. I'd check it in person just in case though.

Nice. Whirlwind was on sale at my library but there was only one volume, the first.

Why don't you just watch the movie?

I really think Updike at his best was one of America's top writers of the 20th century, but something must have happened after the turn of the millennium, because Terrorist is by far the worst thing I've read by him. For your sake, I hope you disagree. Other than that, nice acquisitions.

Super hyped for Énard, as well as revisiting Didion, Kafka, Rilke, Cardinal.
I've recently wanted to get into the Civil War. Any suggestions?

lol why do you care?

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reposting, have a pushkin coming in a few weeks.

going through decameron right now, its hype.

This is bait. It has to be.

Wiley's 'The Life of Johnny Reb' and 'Billy Yank', respectively (the title says it all), and Commager's 'The Blue and the Gray' (the story of the civil war as told by participants).

Are Dover Thrifts Editions worth it?
They are more expensive than Wordsworth,but are they better quality?

Especialler Commager.
To quote the beginning chapter: 'With the deeper causes of the Civil War we are not concerned, nor with the question which has commanded so much speculation, whether the war was a repressible or irrepressible conflict'. Instead, it's a collection of narratives and historical documents such as speeches, memoirs, and battle hymns.

Especially*

Thanks.

You best read The Prelude in that Wordsworth.

The Soldier's Pen also offers a pretty nice array of letters from Csa and Union.

Over the past few weeks

O'Connor, Ocampo, Puig and Yourcenar are top-shelf.

Where the hell do you guys keep finding these hardcover Frolics?

library sale. you can get em cheap on amazon anyway.

>White Teeth - Smith
>Oblivion - Wallace
>Suttree - McCarthy

How'd I do?

They're fine if they are for works that are originally in English. I'd avoid them for translated works though as their translations tend towards low quality. Then again, if you want quality translations you really ought to be going for Penguin or Oxford.

Never mind, I just found one along with a McElroy I didn't own.

Suttree is fuckin great, imagine a world weary modern huckleberry finn

>bad
>good
>good

WITNESS ME

I just ordered the Merrill translation of The Odyssey. Hopefully you're right Veeky Forums.

back to you fucking europoor

Mutter Courage and The Lover

>Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the Odyssey recaptures the oral-formulaic experience as never before
sounds fine

We have the same speaker.

Zone is amazing. So much war and detail.

I just bought these books on the internet:

>Letters from a Seducer - Hilda Hilst
>The Rifles - WT Vollmann
>Here, Bullet - Brian Turner

Got ごぁ's SILENT WORLD today.

Previously it was serialized in Dengeki G's magazine and now it got released in tankōbon format with two extra stories and colored illustrations.

Premise is MC being able to control time and going after a serial slasher that appearently possesses the same ability. And the girl on the cover has the ability too. (Clearly this is suspicious, but I haven't read the book yet, so who know what will it amount to.)

ごぁ is mostly known for Himawari and now Island, two all-ages visual novels praised in the SF genre.

is the Himawari anime any good?
i think i'll this one and Island up aswell.

There's no Himawari anime. Island will have anime adaptation in the future, it was announced, but very likely it'll be inferior to the original visual novel (anime adaptations pretty much always are).

If by "anime" you meant the visual novels themselves, then yeah, they're good. Himawari has an English release announced, Island will probably get it too in the future.

there's an anime called "Himawari!" so i thought it was that, nevermind then.

Ah, I see, that's a different thing under a similar name. ごぉ's Himawari is called "Himawari: Pebble in the Sky". Anyway, it's good, read it if/when you can.

i seriously cannot find anything by this artist on the internet besides Island.

i'm not that into VN, but i might have a look.
i take it SILENT WORLD is not subbed?

空中幼彩? He has some things on Ex.

Nope.

oh sorry, i ment author, but thanks, i'll definitely check that out.

Author is ごぉ (G.O). He only has Himawari: Pebble in the Sky, Island and now Silent World.

Himawari was originally released as amateur VN with porn, but later remade for wider audiences with explicit porn removed, voice acting added, better art (by 空中幼彩) etc.

that's really interesting, was it really that good?

Mostly the author got lucky since the game managed to become a popular. That's a recipe for success.

But yeah, it's good. You can see it on shared 7th place for that year's best visual novels as voted by Japanese players on Erogamescape.
erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/toukei_year.php?year=2007

>Work full time
>Have at least a year's worth of books unread that I'm slowly going through, mostly on weekends
>see
>Want to buy more
HELP

fuuck oxford always have the best covers

orlando furioso in rose's translation?

that's probably the longest rhymed poem in english ever

Of course, i'll even read the prelude to the prelude

Quit your job for 3 months and then buy more

agreed, they do as good a job as nyrb does with their quality.

The oxford one is in prose, I wanted to try it out, Don't know what to expect but hope i'm not gipping myself of the poetry.

but... what's the point to read it in the prose

rose even wrote in ottawa rima albeit it's pretty clear that english simply lacks so many rhymes as he needed for that work

it was quite an outstanding job i imagine

I don't know, desu I hardly looked at the original aside from knowing it was worth getting.

I regret it now and won't read it until after I eventually read the normal one.

I'm so used to getting oxford these past few years i usually don't encounter anything strange like that.

is the clique an erotic book?

how did all this weeb stuff happen

thrift store

My city is having it's annual used book sale this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of used books. I am looking forward to it.

haha

Nice

For some reason these two books are everywhere. Used bookstores, library sales. Some even have multiple copies. Never anything else by wither writer, though.

My city is raving.

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The Monk is fucking terrible, enjoy

is that the best edition of seven pillars of wisdom or are their better? also how many pages is that?

Really? Is it longer than the Faerie Queen? Damn.

afaik it's longer. i don't have faerie queene on hand but it's said to have ~35000 lines, the original ariosot's orlando furioso is said to be 38736 lines while the rose's translation gives 43842 lines in my notepad++, but that's with numbers of cantos, so the actual number of lines is lower

I haven't read any other editions, so I can't say if there are any better. I had no issues with this edition, though.

It's about 650 pages, of which 60-70 or so are pictures or maps.

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Just picked up this from my neighbour
Also got the heart and the diamond sutra last week

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>that height difference in Everyman's Library
so triggered

>mfw Amazon has 3 hours to get my books here on time

What do you mean?

COOL. NOW READ THEM AND THEN COME BACK AND SAY SOMETHING WORTHWHILE.

did you get your books, user?

The irony

Nope, I think they got delayed by a storm. Might have to wait till tomorrow and if not I'll have to wait till sometime in the next couple weeks when I come home again. Oh well.

>Tough Guys Don't Dance

I wonder how this part is portrayed in the book
youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KyBdPeKHg

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The thumbnail makes it look like you are pressing a book against your fat belly