Which books did you buy today, user?
Which books did you buy today, user?
I don't buy books I go to the liberry.
i went into my local oxfam but didn't find anything that caught my eye
i bought journey by moonlight and a single man from there the other day though
>buying books
So you can put them on your shelf like trophies and forget them? Goddamn pleb.
Nothing, I've got to be careful with money until I close on a house in two weeks.
After I move I'll be buying lots, though.
Marx and Engels' Collected works vol. 2, which includes The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism. Against Bruno Bauer and Company and The condition of the Working Class in Englad and few miscellania from between 1844-46 (letters and somesuch) and Engels' Anti-Dühring
didn't order them yet so i can think it over a little more but i think ima get: Python for Finance, and maybe that new book about Charglemagne by Fried...I donno tho, I was thinking about getting Donnigers "The Hindus' but I sampled some of the prose on the B&N preview, and holy shit, filled with corny jokes and puns, is that bitch british or something? ugh, the review of it in the ny times said it was "a grad class on hinduism in itself" or someshit, but now that we all know the New York "Hillary Has 84% Chance Of Winning" Times is just fake news, I see they were full of shit...hmmm...might get "Invesment: A History" by Reamer instead, someone recommend me some rad protestant lit, but not Paradise Loft, already read it.
Szerb is a good cozy read user, I highly recommend A Journey By Moonlight.
I haven't bought anything recently but I'm in the mood for some old sci-fi and surrealist literature so I'm gonna have a look on ebay for some decent NYBR or Twisted Soon Press deals when I get paid.
I'm poor I just read bookz and take some from local library, last book I bought was life of pi because my waifu is better than your waifu.
i know this might be better suited to /hist/ but those nigs seem pleb, recommend me a gud history book to read, like some scholarly shit, no pop stuff...no obvious stuff like Gibbon or Zinn or whatever, I mean like some rad but obscure shit only a specialist is gonna get into, it can be american, european or east asian, i don't care, no muslim or latino bullshit tho plz
Read Hobsbawm, especially Nations and Nationalism
The Girl on the Train and In a Dark Dark Wood (I hear they're both chilling)
>Nations and Nationalism
only 200 pages and cost 13 bucks? will cop.
Do you really want to know? I always get this feeling you just care about getting replies, and don't really value us much as individuals...sorry, just taking it off my chest.
Hey, any of you guys gonna read Thomas Friedman's new book?! haha, just kidding, he's the worst writer at NYTimes and they have some real donkeys on staff.
I bought 50$ iTunes card for 15% plus 5$ off coupon for using the ebay app to buy it, which I will put towards audiobooks once it arrives in the mail, there's some stuff out there too obscure to torrent, deal with it
also bought a 100$ code for 85$ which i put towards a year subscription to Apple Music, which works out to like 7$ a month, deal with it
i bought a first edition hardback of news of a kidnapping by gabriel garcia marquez for £1
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>I highly recommend A Journey By Moonlight.
yeah, i already finished it and it was really great.
hungarian lit is GOAT
This is antiquated marxist understanding of Nations (ie Anti-nationalism), it's rubbish
>one by Salinger
>one by Dostoevsky
>two by McCarthy
>two by Mark Twain
Excited, desu.
Nice to see someone else interested in Hungarian literature, I've been pretty smitten by it since reading Karinthy's Metropole and Szerb, also Skylark over the summer which was a great read. Anything you'd recommend?
about to drive to B&N and pick up some on sale. which ones should i try to get
The Castle or Journey to the End of the Night, two of them are some of my favourite books written.
Just got back from the bookstore, desu
krasznahorkai is great in general, my favourite is war & war but everything translated into english so far is really good
kornel esti by kosztolanyi is really good, almost as good as skylark for me
the door by szabo was neat too
Oh right, that reminds me I did buy some books last week. I ended up getting:
Other Rooms; Other Voices
Rosshalde
Eugine Onegin
Lost Illusions
I've already read Satantango and liked it a lot, very descriptive and moody but I was going to order either Seibo or The Melancholy of Resistance last week but forgot to do so. Will get them sometime towards the end of the month along with War and War maybe. Someone on here recommended me Sunflower a while ago which sounds promising but thanks. I've heard magnificent things about The Door.
i love something happens so much
I'm hoping I like it as much as I liked catch 22
can someone post the unmarked version of that chart
it's very different, but i think it's as good
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ta mate
my backlog has finally been conquered and I've just been rereading stuff for awhile. picked these up today, though.
Vernon Lee - Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
various - The Moons at Your Door (edited by David Tibet)
Jack London - To Build a Fire and Other Stories
HD Everett - The Crimson Blind and Other Ghost Stories
MOMMY
East of Eden
The Idiot
Nostromo
my backlog grows
Recently bought Paradise Lost, Farenheit 451, and The Inferno.
I'm not really sure how to go down the rabbit hole with books. I'm just finally getting the ones I've always wanted.
Also I'm starting to think I'm dumber than I first thought.
Smoke and Other Early Stories by Djuna Barnes
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Garcia Marquez
Deep River by Shusaku Endo
The Ocean at The End of The Lane by Neil Gaimen
Girl with Curious Hair by DFW
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee
Rule 34 by Charles Stross
Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke by Ralph Freedman
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
20 bucks at my nearest goodwill
The Idiot
The Magic Mountain
American Psycho
The Castle
You have a nice Goodwill. Mine has christian novels and old diet books.
I normally don't buy books because poor+library but I racked up enough fines to get my card frozen so today I bought a copy of Ulysses to tide me through till I can pay it off. the girl at the counter commented on my purchase but only to say what a "truly awful, ugly cover" the edition has :(
found some cheap books at the flea market:
Sappho - fragments
I.A. Hayakawa - Language in Thought and Action
Anatomy for Artists
a book on post-impressionism
8 French Plays (Corneille, Racine, Moliere in the original with a glossary, hopefully my French is sufficient soon)