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Recent purchases thread

Got these for $10 at a flea market in Indiana recently.

I hate it when book covers are based off the movie adaptation of it.

Yeah it's pretty tacky

Left is Fukazawa Shichirō's The Ballad of Narayama, I think. (Google isn't much help)
The right is Yasunari Kawabata's "The lake". Got this one as a gift

r8?

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What should I read next?

American Prometheus sounds really interesting
Good cop
What language is that?

The language of God
It's Hungarian.

Is that version of City of God abridged or not? I read an abridged version of City of God. It had chapters where the editor just wrote a paragraph about what that chapter was about, and half the time I actually wanted to know what Augustine had to say about it.

Yep

Jelly, I hope we had cheap beautiful editions over here

If there's anything Portland's good for, it's bookstores

Bump for comfy thread

before you say it: i know the ashton translation is dog shit, i have the german and the online translation to compare, and im reading commentaries contemporaneously as well

Is augustus a good book?
I saw it at my local bookstore but no one seems to buy it

Haven't started it yet. It won the national book award alongside Barth, and many say it's his best. I absolutely loved stoner and butcher's crossing, so I can't really imagine it being anything else but brilliant.

Got them for $14 earlier today. Currently reading C&P on my kindle but wanted a hard copy too

Not American but I would love to go there, seems comfy and full of bookstores

It's a good start if you're getting into serious lit

Heh

Got em all for 30 canuckbucks, old as shit but the basics rarely change

+ Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee

so you want to be a cable monkey?

Your typical user hates it because it's liberal as hell, but it's honestly not that bad at all. The suburbs are mostly yuppies and old hippies. I think it's a pretty great town, a bit too small maybe, but still decently affordable

Yes, and?

It's very good.

nothing. those books arent going to be much use. you should just get on an take the ccna test, they give you all the answers anyway.

How much Descartes is necessary before reading Kant? Or even just Hume and Spinoza? Is it enough to read Discourse and Meditations?

I wish I read all of those. I've only read 3 of those, but most of them are on my list to read. I'm working on C&P now as well.

>they give you all the answers

Oooh, very nice selection here.

YES! BOOK OF EBENEZER LE PAGE IS GOAT

>he isn't already CCNA certified

Portland is very nice.

Better than Seattle.

t.washington native

What a pleasant and small thread

hume is way more important.

bump

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Ambition-Yoshiki Tanaka
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Endurance-Yoshiki Tanaka
The Woman in the Dunes-Kobo Abe
The Face of Another-Kobo Abe
The Melancholy of Resistance-László Krasznahorkai

Rate

Is this enough to pass the pseud detectors? Also, how is the Dryden translation of The Aeneid?

Found it in a charity shop for £1, notvin the greatest condition but it is from 1871.

i really need to start frequenting some charity shops.

Most of the time there is not much worth looking at but every so often there is one or two worth a look.

been to any car boot sales before? those are quite good too. gotta watch out for cow shit though.

Been to a couple, pretty good if you are loooking for manuals for a 1992 ford escort.

This is literally pseudo - the picture.

>Tao The Chink

muh bread pill

We both bought Hemingway and St. Augustine haha

Bread pill is best pill.
Are you planning on reading The Summa?

Maybe, the Selected writings and City of God are intimidating enough on their own.

god i wish that were me

>paperbacks