Recent purchases

I love abebooks

These are second hand. £10 for mason and dixon and £7 for Tolstoy and bleeding edge

damn. find some better stores m8. or try local trading/batering sites.

i'm about to go trade two tokens ($6.50 cad) for boswell's johnson bio, salinger's catcher and moby dick

What's a good book where architecture is part of the main draw of the novel? I loved Petersburg, Paris Peasant, Name of the Rose, Victor Hugo's works, and House of Leaves.

>monthly minimum wage is 250 dollars, I used to make 330 but I'm luck to make 120 now
>a book goes from 9 to 15 dollars
>be a faggot that likes to read on paper
>paid $35 for the cheap version of War and Peace
>$10 for The Aleph
I don't know if I'm poor or things are expensive in Brazil.

>$35 for a cheap version of War and Peace

Definitely Brazil and their fucked up economics at the moment. What translation of War and Peace did you get?

The direct translation made by Cosac Naify but printed by Companhia das Letras after the liquidation.
But books always were expensive here, I remember how The Hive costed 70 reais (17 dollars) a few years ago.

Uuuh do I win this thread? This just came in the mail. Pynchon's I bought them used from AbeBooks, the rest are new from BD.

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merci user, saving that for recent purchases/bookshelf threads

Why would you act like you bought something you didn't

>*ahem*
>you be sayin?
Just kidding. Titus Groan has some descriptions of the Gormenghast castle.

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hello friends

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likes

I literally took that pic and I haven't uploaded it to nowhere else except here. DO you think I'd get likes if I posted it on Instagram? that'd be dope

Fuck I forgot Gormenghast and it is my favourite set of books of all time. I especially love the scene in the first book when Steerpike is climbing over the roofs and sees the layout of the castle.

are those good books? Their titles are really bland

It's amazing, isn't it?

How? it's hardly better than genre fiction

Got this thing for free.
"The History of Hungarian Literature".
It's not a complete set, sadly, but it's still really useful, since it covers everything up until 1905.
(I already discovered one interesting text that I want to read through it.)

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that's very interesting. hungarian literature seems fucking based, but all of the ones i've read so far are 20th century i think

>pic
All of these were free. Thinking of reading No Immediate Danger first. Anyone familiar with these?

>Uuuh do I win this thread?
You win the 'Least Originality' award.

Imagine purchasing this many books only to read none of them.

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>only to read none of them

hard to imagine

That's because not much gets translated into English.
Though I could recommend pic related if you are up for a 19th century Faustian closet drama.
It's peak Hungarian lit.

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>absalom,absalom!

Good choice

I ordered yesterday:
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun (just read Pan)
Amerika by Kafka
Kafka: the Decisive Years (biography)
The Time Machine, Invisible Man, and War of the Worlds by Wells
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
Invisible Cities

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>Shalamov and Grossman

Been listening to Zizek lectures too haven't you? If you haven't read it already I would recommend starting with The Collector for Fowle's works.

Titus's father gets my absolute sympathies. Poor bastard just wanted to be alone with his books.

Anyway lately picked up:
The Bone Clocks-David Mitchell
Butcher's Crossing-John Williams(Current read)
Turn of the Screw-Henry James
Four Past Midnight-Stephen King
Insomnia-Stephen King
Different Seasons-Stephen King
Quicksilver-Neal Stephenson
Lud in the Mist-Hope Mirrlees
The Worm Ouroboros-Eddison
Darkness at Noon-Arthur Koestler
Irvine Welsh omnibus-Irvine Welsh
A Brief History of Seven Killings-Marlon James
Gillespie-J Macdougall Hall
The Lost Europeans-Emanuel Litvinoff

20 € for the whole pack

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those richard evans books are good

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>Broken April, Ismail Kadare
>Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars
>Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau
>The Skin, Curzio Malaparte
>The Obscene Bird of Night, José Donoso
>Frog, Mo Yan
>The Hive, Camilo José Cela

Best translation of Notes

I’m about to order Fibonacci’s Book of Squares. Hopefully it will be a little less monotonous than the dredge that is pic related.

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Lovely, esp. hackett Plato and Kokoro

>Have Capital & Schizophrenia 1-2 as-well but coudent fit them in
Massumi is my favorite companion to AO by far :)

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What edition of Foucault's Pendelum is that? Looks neat.

Also, why so many nyrb editions? I don't have any, are they just bound well or something?

Faulkner aside it's all meme and affirmative action literature. So no, you did not win the thread.

Fuck off your with your made up buzzword crap. You're not going to impress anyone trying to act as a higher intelectual douchebag.

Well you see the criticism is exactly that they are promoted by people 'trying to act as higher intellectual douchebags'. Which is why you see them in every other post on here, why they're meme literature. They're chosen by the pretentious because those authors and their work seem especially intimidating.