I was reading this book and felt so happy about the object I had to post here out of excitement.
I’m mildly drunk and starting an aesthetics thread on the looks of my favorite-looking books. I’ve not read all I’m going to post, as I’m as much a collector as reader, but please post the books you own that give you immense pleasure to look at or hold. I’ll discuss whatever books I can, though I’m bedding soon and will not return ‘til tomorrow.
First off, this simple paperback is what started the whole thing. A great little collection of musings masquerading as essays.
This one is next on my fiction docket, though I’ve borrowed a beautiful copy of House of Leaves that I’m trepidatious about touching (cuz it’s thicc). I read 10 Philip K. Dick novels last two years, and I assumed the title “through a scanner darkly” was a direct reference to this. A little local bookstore I love dearly is going out of business so I picked this up relatively cheaply after being attracted by the title and finding the prose clear and politely beautiful.
Final post ‘til someone responds. Love these older mass market paperbacks. Girlfriend picked this one up from a bookstore in the middle of nowhere, WV, in a “bookstore” amounting to little more than a disintegrating hoarder’s (Ed-small town lawyer and divorcee) life-collection stacked haphazard into a commercial space. Fucker slept in the store because his own pose had been turned off. Didn’t know how to haggle either, so we got this, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in a similar classic mass market and a Dostoevsky hardback for like $10. Funny, cuz he had no prices on anything and made them up on the god damn spot. Strange little place in memory.
I don't own any pretty books, I just wanted to say I appreciate your enthusiasm user. I read a shitton of PKD for my undergrad dissertation lol, good times - what's your favourite?
Aiden Jenkins
VALIS or Flow My Tears. Or Androids. I only have most of my PKD with me in this state, not all. I’ve literally thought to myself that I should write a dissertation-style essay on PKD to make use of all the reading I’ve done on the fucker. Love him so much.
I’ve read every one of the novels and only a few of the short stories. Prolific bastard.
This is a limited first edition I bought and read because Vonnegut to me is like chips and salsa. It hurts but I can’t get enough. Beautiful copy I picked up in a local store. There’s a first edition of Galapagos in the store that’s about to close that I’ve not yet picked up because I’ve already read it and it costs $20 ($14 on sale) but I’m still considering it.
