Recent Purchases

Hey, I have that same edition. Bought it in my weeb phase, too, and I actually got pretty far, all things considered.

> caring more about how a certain edition looks more than actually wanting to read the book
> paying excessively for the ugliest edition
> wasting money on shit lit

Nah, m8. They don't.

best post ITT. Jealous.

That Anime book was very useful for my dissertation on Japanese post-war cinema. Was very surprised that it detailed the rise in merchandising as well as the origins of Japanese animation as a whole, not just anime. British Film Institute editions are very useful and intelligently written.

got them at 50% off

You didn't even get the best combination sempai

i got paradise lost of that edition
how much did you pay fot all that?
I love that edition

>Gray's Anatomy
Why would you buy something like that unless you're a doctor or a med student? Does Grey's Anatomy have an actual literary merit?

Obvious bait but it's only polite to respond. I wish penguin's hardcover edition of Schopenhauer's Essays and Aphorisms wasn't some gaudy pink but some like their Moby Dick look good

Not my first choice of edition but I personally prefer their more minimalist design over these ones: I own a lighter green/turquoise copy of that Moby Dick. Why were they half price, user? Your girlfriend work at waterstones or something?

not that guy but the colour pink usually gives me a hard on, it's ridiculous it just has to be the colour on its own and then things will then start moving down there

Not even doctors would need such a gaudy edition. I really don't know why would anyone decide to make a fancy hardcover of a med book.

I unironically like a few of these.

>The Arabian Nights
>The Divine Comedy
>Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
>The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (not pictured)

Only reason to own this book if you aren't a doctor:

>what are you doing senpai
Thanks for the (you)s, works every time.

Go do something better with your life. It's sunny today, go outside and play.

Satan has really let himself go since Genesis

Back in the 80's i used to keep my VHS tapes in cases that looked like those

Tell me more about this dissertation please.

Audibly lel'd - the Western decadence is too dank

>Tale of Genji

My senpai!

I really like the covers of these editions, we sell several of them at the book store I work at. This version of Moby Dick has caught my eye but I want to see if it is the British or American edition.

>our recent book about Anime with it's relation with Post War Japanese cinema is mostly about Japanese consumerism and the changing asian trends in cold war media and politics
>let's make it's cover a bunch of cute girls doing cute things
>but we're british film institute and making such a book cover may be deemed as childish and heavily misinterpreted with our book's context
>who the fuck cares

oh boy you are not in for a fun time, i studied Aquinas' ST for my final exams and only a small fraction of it is actually philosophically interesting
if you plan on actually reading the good bits, i would recommend buying J. Eberl's 'Guidebook to the ST' and using him as an indication of which questions are actually important in the grand scheme of Aquinas' work

Honestly, I'm not really into anime on a weeb level(I watch something maybe every two months,but never the "cute" stuff), I just like history of stuff, and I already read a fair bit on Japanese animation and comics, so why not deepen that knowledge?

Stop buying books and fucking read them. What reason do you have to purchase more than two new books?

Haven't received them yet, but these were my most recent book order.

I could read all the ones in my pic in a day, since they're mainly picture/art books.

It's funnier when the book is actually a deep academical work and not for simple enthusiasts.

Not him, but I buy books when I feel bad. In germany we call it "frustkaufen". Basically, it's just the habit people have to make themselves feel better by buying things they like, but don't need to counteract a bad day.

Also got Sandakan, The Scramble for Africa and 2666 on the way (already read 2666 in ebook form)

>the miko
first book I ever jerked it to. absolutely awful.
>James Patterson
I used to read him when I was 12. Nothing but gore porn.
>the perfume
had to read that for school. Probably good, but I hated it then.

Started reading just a couple of months ago, what'd you say about my beginner stack?

from the bottom up
The Stranger by Camus
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Capote
>
Swedish author who isn't very known internationally i believe
Steppenwolf by Hesse
>
Gravitation's Rainbow by Pynchon
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Rum Diary by Thompson
Swedish author x2
>
The Waves by Virginia Woolf

It's pretty good. A bit strange that you got "Gravitationens regnbåge" in swedish though.

saved to my cringe folder
good christ the amount of money you wasted on this...

will I lose much of the experience not reading it in english?

lmao someone had to say it

Am I being counter-memed with people pretending to see this for the first time or is everyone in here really this new?

R8 my stack

Reeks of /pol/ chart memes, but of that stuff Burke and Junger are great. Dune Messiah goes between Dune and Children so you might want to get on that if Dune ends up appealing to you. Everything else is pretty great, I love seeing people getting into Herodotus.

I have Messiah in my bag. And yeah, I got into the Evola meme due to suggestions from a friend, but ultimately found it to be disappointing.

I, too, have recently started to read.
I previously took the wife out to eat, which cost $35, then found this little treasure at the local Goodwill and bought it all for $33.
There was also a copy of Moby Dick in this style, but I already have a paperback copy in my possession.

>is everyone in here really this new?
yes

Fuck me, forgot pic in last post.

Little gem at Goodwill today. $2, great condition.

Tfw I spent all day trying to find Henlein MiaHM at my towns used bookstores and nothing

No

Finally decided to get some books that actually looked good, instead of reading all the meme recommendations on this board

Demian is amazing, good choice

Close enough, this is all the books I've read in the last year - alright, GR pushed me over by a couple of weeks.

In the pipline:
Siddartha
I, Robot
Iron John: A Book About Men
My War Gone By, I Miss It So

>number9dream
my man
underrated imo, cloud atlas (and to a lesser extent ghostwritten) gets all the attention

dune messiah is my favourite dune
also, I know it's a set text and all but I really love heart of darkness

most hardcore post ITT. most people read the abridged.

How much did you pay for all this?

I have that edition of Storm of Steel and its the neutered and sanitized version.

Thanks, struggling through the homoeroticism of Narcissus and Goldmund now.
Good to hear. I have the thousand autumns as well, read clout atlas and wasn't as amazed by it as I thought I'd be though

Those shitty books are like $20 each, and it looks like there's like 50 books. $1000 down the fucking drain.

I really recommend ghostwritten too. There are bits in it that are just OK, but most of it is virtuoso-tier imo.
Thousand Autumns is well written but far less experimental than his previous books, so I wasn't as fond of it.

Cool, thanks amigo. I'll put that at the top of my list to keep an eye out for

Oof. those Dostoevsky are Constance Garnett.
B&N reprints editions that are in the public domain, so many of their translations are old Victorian versions that attempt to make the work more "Anglo". It's always best to do a bit of googling before buying translated works.

A nice mix of genres in this one. You should read East of Eden after Of Mice and Men, it's much better.

+economic anthropology, underrated topic

If you manage to read all this I'd be impressed.

You should read some of E.H Taine's accounts of the French Revolution after you've read Burke.

Finally have a copy of these 21st century masterpieces. Is Hypersphere worth getting?

Oy. Thanks for that. I suppose I will donate them again. Still, not all a loss for $3 a book.

Stuff I picked up from my local bookstore that had a fourth of July sale.

Don't listen to him. Her translations have their critics, but they were the standard version of those works for a long time. They're perfectly readable, and some people even prefer them.

>pessoa
top of my reading list, excellent taste user

How did you like dharma bums? I really enjoyed it, have desolation angels in my to read shelf.
But I get how Kerouac isn't for everybody

Actually I read East of Eden before both Grapes of Wrath and Mice and Men - EoE was probably my favorite of the 3. Should re-read it, in fact.

I'm very conflicted on Kerouac - I don't particularly like any of the characters, in fact I think they're all dicks. But at the same time, he captures something very...honest, so to speak. On some level I think I identify with him and his fascination of all the people he idolizes and portrays.

But yeah, I think I enjoyed it more than On the Road. I want to say it's more introspective, and quite melancholy at times.

Oh yeah, I picked up Bossypants at an airport for some comfy reading, but Fey's humor doesn't really come across well in book form. Can't recommend.

Found these at a used bookstore in Miami.

For sure. On the Road isn't great, shame it's his most popular. Big Sur is probably my favorite of his as it's him dealing with growing old and realizing he's an asshole, all while going through alcohol delirium. Very out there, introspective, but honest at the same time. DB was fun, but I agree, most of the characters were pretty shitty, but then again all of his characters are based on his real friends so eh

The dispossessed majority
more money than sense.jpeg

...

Yeah, you feel so distanced from the characters, partly because of how unlikable some of them are, but also because their frame of reference is so different (at least in my case). I've heard it said that Keuorac should be re-read once you're older, because you'll recognize the people and everything from your own life.

Big if true

You dumb fucking brainlet. The Garnett versions are great please stop with this meme. You haven't even read a Garnett translation have you?

truly ugly

>not in latin
2/10

The covers do look tacky as fuck, but everyone freaking out about this needs to explain why. They're inexpensive hardcover versions of public domain classic books. Not much worse than buying those same books under the Penguin imprint.

upboat

Honestly, the Three/Seven/Five Novels shit trigger me the most.

My recent purchases:

What we talk about when we talk about love - Raymond Carver
The Holy Roman Empire - Peter Wilson
The 5th Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe
The Phoenix and the Mirror - Avram Davidson

Also

I pre-ordered this a few weeks ago

If you deny this you are a sick fuck. if you deny the truth of my words there is no help for you. Yes it happened as i said. Trauma Dolores woke up being raped by her husband who had not eaten in three days as to prepare for his suicide. Trauma Dolores went to work afterwards and ate chinese food at the parlor. She cut her hair and became Punk and walked down to downtown and ordered a frapuccino and wvoted for DONALD TRUMp. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is what happens in our society. This is why Trump got elected and if you fail to acknowledge it you are a SICK FUCK. I'm sick, sick of your lies and of your deception i'm also sick of that t-shirt you are wearing. You are not the man to wear plain white tshirts until you get this, we will not have sex. I pondered for a moment and walked down to the pond where i had been storing my jewels from the thievery that took place the days before. There was a man standing there who smoked a cigarette and he was thinking very heavily i figured about some heavy stuff. He wore a suit, a nice and fitting suite. He looked very well, groomed, clean, manly, had a very interesting face that told by itself a history. he eyed me subtly and continued to stare into the pond. I slowly moved up to him, my feet doing noise on the ground iirc. I stood there and looked at his ears which were cute, boyish somehow. I said: "Hello gentleman." he turned his head to me and i heard some bells in the distance. It meant the rituals in the city had begun. "Lady" he said and smiled at me. His smile was like the guitar of a jazz guitarist slowly introducing the dreamlike music soon to follow and developing further into a kaleidoscopic dreamscape. His smile was like the singsang of magical womans floating through the aether. It was termbling invisibly thus appearing standfast and selfassured while also showing the excitement that was working heavily behind the confines of the masked appearance. There is nothing more lovely than a mask which betrays the uncontrollable and often unknown feelings of it's owner. "What are you doing out here on a fine night light this? And all alone? It is unfitting for a beautiful woman like you to go all alone to a pond at night. You surely must be cold" He said, looking now at the pond, trying to appear somewhat disinterested, hiding behind ironic courtesy. "I have stored my jewely in that pond there. I robbed it a couple of weeks ago and now im tretrieving it." - He wasn't sure whether i was messing with him and had to laugh a bit and his face melted a tiny bit i think. He shrugged and responded "That is a good excuse to come out here and be thrilled by this beautiful pond in the moonlight." - HAHAHHAhA i laughed at this remark and smiled at him and he would also smile at me if not at that moment litttle frogs jumped out of the pond and played frogmusic like a highly skilled orchester and danced around us in sycnhronicity while the man had started playing a bluesharp in tune "grand jam" he sai

>james patterson

>not just reading aquinas' own concise edition

Those were a gift, not my choice but I will give them a try at least.

>The Evola Trilogy

Nice, my dude. They're not as interesting as you think they're going to be and honestly a lot of Evola's writing is just jumbled word salad that barely means anything. But they're still worth a read.

So I started reading The Inferno for the first time and I don't know any of the references to Greek and Roman poetry. So I picked these up. Should I finish reading the Divine Comedy, and then read the others or read them before?

A few months ago I started working for a local book store as a used book buyer. It's a pretty good gig and I got most of these books through that position. Most of them I got for free even (the best example being the Murukami. We couldn't sell it without the box so I got to take it home.) I found the copy of Paris Stories in a free library nearby. We have them scattered throughout my area and while they mostly contain shit, I still check them for gems like these. I'm pretty happy with what I've got in the past few months for spending as little as I have. I think I only paid for Death On Credit and the Lorca. Probably only paid around $10.

can i eat ur ass

>that toe
subtle

Bought the first four volumes of The Familiar.

It's gonna be House of Leaves all over again except four times as long.

>painted toenail
are you a girl?