How's this stack from half priced books/goodwill. Also post recent cops

>goodwills that have books that aren't christian lit, self help books, cookbooks, celeb/talkshow host puff pieces, or pop culture trash like Dan Brown

How much for the cat

>Not all facing the same way

0/10

How many times must I tell you I don't speak Hungarian

I don't know what is your problem.
I put them in stacks based on author,and even translated the titles into english.
Then posted the list.

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It's a joke fampai. That character in Iron Man basically dies because he can't speak Hungarian to stall for time

Oh, okay.

It's just how many times am I going to get an opportunity literally giftwrapped to me like that?

Every so often,since I post my purchases in these threads

all these threads do is reinforce the idea that it is much easier to buy books than to read them

I'm sure most have the intention to read them, but does he really need to purchase 8 books in one go. wouldn't one, maybe two have been enough material for a while

listen you have to fall for the lit meme

just go out and buy everything you see on "Lits top 100" and then stack it up on your bookshelf and then start with the Greeks, open up the Iliad, read about 300-Pages then give up on life and shit post on here.....

Who else just likes to buy books from goodwill regardless of whether they will read them soon?
Spent $50 on ~40 books at goodwill last year and I've only read 3. It feels like an addiction desu.

If you're getting them for cheap at a book festival/sale then why not grab as many as you want?

Good will = book festival

8 books for $8 is pretty cheap. If I see a book I wanted to read, in op's case, v. or east of eden, would I rather have that book forever to read at my leisure or realise a few years later that I actually wanted to read it and have to shell out $10 for a new copy? Granted, you might just have limited space or be one of those people who sell there books as soon as they finish it but most people aren't. Besides, despite goodwills generally have a dozen worthwhile books each time, the chance of finding a less than mainstream book for cheap at one again is very slim.

$2.15 from salvation army

Is there someone who will refute this? Are you actually a fucking retard?

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Is DeLillo the new Stephen King

God fucking dammit. There's no bookstores (let alone second-hand stores that shelf books) anywhere near me. You don't know how good you all have it.

funny you should say that, the few pages I've read so far actually reminded of King a lil. like the good parts of King mixed with the good parts of DFW

>the good parts of DFW

Lol

We all know there's no such thing

Nice cat.
Most recent stack.

>For 1 eurocoin a kilo at a streetmarket.

the goodwills near me have garbo bookshelves
best things i've managed to pull out of there were american psycho and some vonnegut
reading east of eden now, would rec, start with it

Which to read first?

Is A Confedary of Dunces any good?
the author topped himself because it didn't get published first time round

oblo

I loathe you people with quality local Goodwills. I rummaged through god knows how many books in mine and the only book I left with was Glass Castle.

Do Kant first. He's a fun, quick read.

Okay I'll do that first and then

Thanks boys

>Ender's Game

It may be the funniest book ever written (can't decide between it and Don Quixote).

Fumiko Hayashi - Floating Clouds (left)
Tanizaki Junichiro - The Makioka Sisters (right)

Read Floating Clouds so far and was pretty satisfied.

It's occasionally funny but not the laugh riot people pretend it is.

Wow, that's not a good reason to loathe people. I feel sorry for you.

We share the same dream.

Of getting fisted in the ass by mediocre Macklemore lookalikes

do you live in Aleppo? How the fuck are there no book stores where you are. I swear I live near like 3 in walking distance from me, and a library

>that fucking photo quality.

You are probably from /p/ right?

Kinda shit desu

>Translated Cervantes, Dante, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoievski, Gombrowicz, Kafka, Goethe, Baudelaire, Bolaño, Borges, Saramago, Kawabata, Mishima, Oe, Nietzche, Assis, Stendhal, Mann, Broch, Bulgakov, Tchekov, Rosa, Camões, Seneca, Buzzati, Calvino, Pessoa, Musil, Svevo, Pavese, Tanizaki, Canetti, Flaubert, Rilke, Moliere, Carpentier, Plato, Hesiod, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Ibsen, Lorca, Puchkin, Cortazar, Descartes, Schopenhauer, Gide, Fontane, Kundera, Sarte, Camus, Zola

what's the point?

his stack is atleast three times better than yours

Currently reading The Prince with amusingly arrogant commentary by Napoleon. Which one should I read next?

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damn, those are beautiful. would love to learn japanese just to read floating clouds.

Heh. Butt.

Where can I get good used books in Budapest? I'm looking for Hungarian lit and poetry (in Hungarian), and also 'classics' translated into English.

Here are my purchases for the last couple of weeks.

The "great books" all came up to around ~£10. I volunteer in an Oxfam and someone donated about 15 of them. These are the ones I managed to get. I have no idea why someone would donate these.

The other books all came to around £16. There are a few more books that I bought recently that aren't pictured here. (lolita and a few philosophy books)

Quick side note: the book of the poetic works of Milton on top of the right stack is from the 1800s and it has a hand written message in it from 1860.

how's that aseop's fables? i want to get it soon. mind posting pictures of the inside please?

Could you please show me the Table of Contents of that Norton Melville? I've been eyeing it for a while now, but I can't decide whether or not to take the plunge. I already have a few different annotated editions of his short stories, but I'm seriously considering getting this.

No problem, give me a day, I'm away from my place.

>He's absolutely right!
My bad, didn't think my camera would be so shit.
- Vanished Kingdoms (Veeky Forums)
- Memoirs of Hadrian
- Lanark: A life in four books
- The Idiot
- The Guns of August by Tuchmann

Being and Time should only be read with the guide of a professor, or as a grad student. Waste of time otherwise.

Paul Auster is related to the late-Lawrence Auster, the greatest right-wing blogger ever

You might want to try the kiosk at Móritz Zsigmond körtér,it's next to the tramstop of Tram 6.
They sell good stuff.
There is another kiosk at the other side of the square,in front of McDonald's.
Try finding kiosks.
They sell at cheap prices,and you can often find gems.

Thanks, I'll give it a try when I'm there in a couple of weeks.

I hope you've read Faulkner's The Hamlet and The Town before you read The Mansion.

your cat is cute! CUTE!!

>that portrait

phil grad? would whisper sweet things into your ear.

can't wait to read moke Beckett t b honest

Did you study creative writing? No one reads Aimee Bender or Lorrie Moore save for other writers.

/thread desu

>not even in english
come on man

These threads are retarded. Congrats, you spent money and are now you're looking for validation of your consumption by randos on the internet.

>reading in pleb tongue

nah brah, nah

Coming through plebites.

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i haven't heard of any of the authors so they must be good

It's okay they're all exactly like a mix of joyce and pynchon.

>he hasn't heard of Henry James or Maxim Gorky
YIKES

(check em out tho)

>reading The Lusiads
>in english

pfffffff, get out of my face pleb

just joking brah, as a non english speaker that constantly gets shitted for reading english works in portuguese I seldom have the chance to shitpost like this

I'm reading eca de queiros right now, the guy literally wastes not a line in his books, even through the english translations you can tell how proficient he was with prose.

House of ramires is top notch, so thick and rich with information, you guys have some impressive writers aside from pessoa of course.

It's fine m8, I'm currently studying taiwanese to shitpost better and read bootleg mangas at the local market.

My birthday is in two days, so i'll buy some books, but I can afford only two of the following books
>the savage detectives
>lolita
>book of disquiet
>zeno's conscience
>hopscotch
>any random rec of a short and good book
What should i pick?

imho disquiet and lolita, but you can't really go wrong with these, for me the weakest is savage detectives, still good tho

also hopscotch isn't that short from what I remember

notes from the underground made me laugh.
"all i told you since now was a lie, and i lied just for pure evilry"
it was a true madman
that was hilarious.

funniest thing sartre in the nausea said THE FUCKING SAME somewhere in the beggining. I guess i liked it at the end but fuck, that guy was a piece of shit.

read it in catalan tho.

btw im making a library, i read some more books but not took care of em.

from left to right

chejov tales
italo calvino , les cosmicòmique
haruki murakami (after dark)
sartre (la nàusea)
gorki (the mother)
shakespeare (tragedies)
borges (fictions) this guy amazing
antology catalan poetry
kafka (meta)
camus (la peste)

not a big thing i know but im a bit learning from all sources, im reading this kind of books cuzz i save logic books for uni, that is where i want to specialize i think.

>buying books for his bday
qt

qt

Just be advises,they don't carry anything in english.

Here you go darling.

No endnote section of course, Norton does footnotes.

Kek.

So this is why people buy Norton?
Just some essays?

got a few by welsh OP, when i finish porno i will trade all of them in old books stores

excuse the pt titles

Thanks

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Not recent cops, but things I'm working on.

>inb4 le Dawkins reader meme