Recent Purchases Thread

We already have a thread for this.
And had one 3 days ago.

i think she's unattractive desu

Do it anyway.

nah

Fuck you.

choke on that shit taste boi

Lel so rendumb xD

>pleb/patrician spook

You get the same out of every book. The only difference between what you consider superior books and inferior books is that your superior books have words and descriptions developed over 150 years for what you are getting out of them and Sanderson books do not.

I think being exposed to someone else's reality with 3 different forms of magic based around metals puts more in my brain, if not the same, than your "superior" books.

It may not be layered or nuanced (OH, but if anyone is it is Sanderson plots), but the fresh concept and new ideas in Sci-fi and Fantasy have just as much to change the way you see things.

Yes, there are 3. Read on if you want. Allomancy isn't the only system in those books.

Gonna probably start in on this at work tonight.

2/10
Try harder

Repost coming trough

The english ones are new.

Kafka book conatins both "The Trial" and "The Castle"
English title of the Faulkner is "The Hamlet"
A yankee in king Arthur's court by Mark Twain
Two Women of China
Farewell, Gulsary! by Chinghiz Aitmatov
Ikarus in Pest

Also got the Reclam edition of Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in the mail a few days ago.
And a copy of the Tao te Ching.

>no plebs aloud
>makes a recent purchase thread

Easy there Zeno

>DFW nonfiction
Unaskedfor advice: skip it, it's awful.

Les Miserable-Victor Hugo
God Emperor of Dune-Frank Herbert
Skylark-Dezso Kosztolyany
The Engineer of Human Souls-Skvorecky
Life and Fate-Grossman
Freedom-Jonathan Franzen
The Black Prince-Irish Murdoch

Surely Max would order milk.

Step up your meme game, son.

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again is a good entry into DFW's works and essays, I really love reading the Lynch chapter.

Somehoe those books look really good together.

I'm about 50 pages into Sabbath's Theater and holy shit is it good

>Henning Mankell

What about him? Bought it on a whim, never read a word of his work.

>What about him?
Nothing but a standard swecrime slog with the standard muh social criticism.

Sounds kinda cool, after I finish Roth I'm gonna read it and there's nothing you can do to stop me user

I hope for your sake that you did not burchase your Mein Kampf using anything other than cash.

The selfie photography of Kim Kardashian, featuring many never-before-seen personal images from one of the most recognizable and iconic celebrities in the world. From her early beginnings as a wardrobe stylist, Kim Kardashian has catapulted herself into becoming one of the most recognizable celebrities in Hollywood. Hailed by many (including Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci) as the modern-day personification of Marilyn Monroe, Kim has become a true American icon. With her curvaceous style, successful reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, DASH clothing store, makeup and perfume lines, she has acquired a massive fan following in the multi-millions. Through social media (Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook), Kim connects with her fans on a daily basis, sharing details of her life with her selfie photography. Widely regarded as a trailblazer of the "selfie movement"--a modern-day self-portrait of the digital age--Kim has mastered the art of taking flattering and highly personal photos of oneself. For the first time in print, this book presents some of Kim's favorite selfies in one volume--from her favorite throwback images to current ultra-sexy glam shots--and provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look into this larger-than-life star.

I liked what I have read so far.

>Wasting money on the Kim K selfie book when the Taschen Gisele book is out

Pleb.

I forgot Franz Kafka's America, lso how is Hoffman's translation since it is the one I have? I enjoyed Underwoods The Castle but Hoffman seems alright.

amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/0789329204/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_see_rcnt?ie=UTF8&s=sd

>I loved the book! Grandma loved it also. Thanks

>picturebook
How old are you?

sup m8

What is this Kim book I see floating?

Time capsule of folk art of our century. Once you will get a big picture, then you'll see it as a milestone.

I'm guessing Stirner ordered Vodka in order to make a white russian, since he brought his own milk.

>being too middle class to admit it's for wanking

Book of selfies from Kim. Fap material.

I'm from old money my friend. I have no such a needs.

Oops wrong pic.

How rich?

Was reading this on kindle, bought a physical copy because referencing earlier parts was annoying.

Only when I held it in my hand did I realize the guys on front had their cocks out.

>Only when I held it in my hand did I realize the guys on front had their cocks out.
Congratulations, now you're gay

Just enough to let you take a shower with my girlfriend without any threat from you.

it's entertaining and cool as a piece of writing, but keep in mind dfw was a total idiot about movies/music so take his commentaries w/r/t those areas with more than a grain of salt

Doesn't that simply reveal that she's not worth it?

Do you do anything? Work-wise. Age too and all that.

youtube.com/watch?v=290ElM2BIHM

Good stuff.

I checked out what it costs at an online bookstore and they suggested I might also like the diary of Anne Frank.

...

The republic and two other volumes of Plato.

I've read Moby Dick twice, but I hear the notes and critical apparatuses on these editions are top notch.
Read a few passages from Thoreau's journal online and excited to read. I've always failed at keeping a journal myself. And Matthiessen to continue the transcendentalist streak I have going.
Picked up Céline, Rabelais, Sterne for a dollar each.

I forgot pic.

And some other stuff.

Oops.

I got even more than I asked for. Thanks user.

Don't have it yet but yesterday I ordered the folio society edition of On the Origin of Species, I'm kinda excited.

Does it come with a free trilby?

are you attracted to men?
you know what, even if you were attracted to men, it's hard to deny kim's attractiveness

are you even human?

Light in August is fucking great
so is Ray Carver.

Once upon a time bestsellers were books of great literary worth, contemporary insight, and timeless beauty. Today, bestsellers are books that guarantee a gullible public the same level of excitement that pornographic websites and erotic photographs do.

Quote:

"Why anybody would pay money for these selfies when they could just go on Instagram for free is beyond me. I guess if you’re a fan of the Kardashians you probably aren’t very smart." - PHIL NYE

The mainstream media and the Junk press catapulted her to international stardom by showcasing her every pout, selfie pose, amorous exploit, relationship flip-flop, fashion razzmatazz, wardrobe malfunction, and even her staged family row. Now, they have raved her to bestselling author status. And that, without doubt, is a very curious step-up.

Not surprisingly, TIME magazine refers to her as "The First Lady of Fame - the 100 most influential people."

In spite of the hoopla, the truth is that the publication of her book of selfie photography, "Selfish," highlights the paradox of the publishing industry, which essence is the enrichment of society with inspiring literary creations and yet finds itself often robbing society of its integrity by churning out celebrity trash for reasons that are not exactly noble.

Then why would you buy the book?

Posted a similar photo in the "stacks" thread already, but oh well. How'd I do, Veeky Forums? Bought these today.

i just don't like her face
i didn't buy it you just thought i was OP

>not exactly noble
In what times do you think yo live m8?

>m8
Is that how commoners talk nowadays? Frankly ertocovian I should say.

Last year, when I wrote about Kim and Kanye, I said I was "struck dumb" by the "collective cultural fracturing" that they actually seemed to be engineering, and doing it with the blatant biraciality of their combined meme, and with grandiosity, sincerity, kitsch, irony, theater, and ideas of spectacle, privacy, fact, and fiction. All that had compressed into some new essence, an essence that they seemed to be shaping as surely and strangely as Andy Warhol once formed his. As with Warhol, this shaping simultaneously shines, shields, and spawns knee-jerk criticisms of crassness, shallow opportunism, and surface-only illusion. But it makes people look at the same time.

She started taking selfies in the mid-1980s with pre-digital cameras, and many of the genre's formal earmarks are already present in her pictures: the odd angles, arm holding the camera visible, peeks behind scenes, the fish-eyed distortion in the depth of field, the urge to create reality by documenting it. The irretrievability of passing moments.

She was enamored of her own form. We don't even discuss how unconventional her form is and was at the time, given the rigid strictures of female beauty defined by society!

Selfish is a kind of American My Struggle — that’s Karl Ove Knausgaard's epic, not Hitler’s. I mean, a chorus of one, written in a personal language of compassion, infinite theater, stage sets, setpieces, ceremony, shallowness, despairs, self-awareness, sexuality, unable to curtail one's selfishness and obsession with one's own image. Extras enter and leave the stage, but photography, rather than writing, as homeopathic medicament, remedy, used to relieve and express painful malaise.

I mean two of those books look åretty patrish, but IJ?

i mostly pirate

Sabbath's Theatre and American Pastoral are hugely under discussed here. Basically two reviews of how a well crafted normie life crumbles.

what's this book about?

Topkek sir

Please be the same person.

Probably tylo be chillin

Why?

i don't know where to begin criticizing this waste of paper

...

Bought it on amazon desu

1/2

2/2

cranking your neck and trying to decipher the book titles in extremely poor photographs before you shitpost is half the fun

Otherwise there's two people here who bought the kim book.

This is my summer reading. Got a nice mix of Greeks, non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.

Here's all my hauls from last weekend. One stack's from Half Price Books, one from Thrift Books and one from a local independent bookstore.

I bought a sex slave.

Hmm some books..

This actually got me aroused..

Me2. Would buy if I was richer.

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r8?

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