/lit/ - Literature

>>6842031
1/2

Breddy good except McCarthy but I have a borderline-irrational hatred of his books

>>6842045
2/2

r8, don't h8

>>6842047
This will be my first McCarthy book so I may be with you on that

>>6842031
>>6842045
>>6842049
You just start reading m8? Hipster shit 101.

BUK's poetry collections aren't even the decent ones.

>Howl

>>6842053
Blood Meridian is a masterpiece any way you look at it. Just reading for the aesthetic of the prose can/will be very rewarding, and then there are the layers and the references and allusions that you can look into and brings new and bigger implications to the story.

"Augustus" by Anthony Everitt
"The Once and Future King" by T.H. White
"The Way of the Knife" by Mark Manzetti

>>6842054

Never read poetry, I'm more of a prose guy. So yes, I am completely lost in poetry. Some guy showed me Cummins, Ginsberg and Frost the other night, so I'm gonna start from there and see where it brings me.

>>6842065
Nah it's kinda terrible and vapid actually. The prose is decent (not great, just decent) but the plot is laughably bad and the "layers" even worse. Probably one of the most mediocre books to be so critically acclaimed by so many people.

The last 3-4 chapters especially are directionless and awful.

Can I just post my Amazon Cart instead?

>>6842116
Only if you've bought what's in it.

>>6842123
BUT I HAVEN'T

They're good books. You may want some of them

>>6842143
I probably already have them, but you could post it anyway.

>>6842149
Thank you, thank you.

Book of Numbers - Cohen
Cinema 1 & 2 - Deleuze
Sculpting in Time - Tarkovsky
No Exit - Satre
Beware of Pity - Zweig
God's Zeal - Sloterdijk
Hard Rain Falling - Carpenter
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti - Rokeach
Dead Souls - Gogol
Invention of Morel - Casares
The Goshawk - White
The Death of Napoleon - Leys
Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks
The Graveyard - Hlasko
Herzog - Bellow
The Cannibal - Hawkes
Phedre - Racine
Death of Virgil - Broch
Post-postmodernism - Nealon
The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium - Dery
The Foundation Pit - Platonov
As A Man Grows Older - Svevo
Theological-Political Treatise - Spinoza
Under the Volcano - Lowry

To be fair, I have 300 to spend, seeing as I was just given it as a gift recently.

>>6842170
Nice lot of NYRB classics. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti was one of the books that got me back into interesting non-fiction. You might like the works of A. R. Luria too.

>muh materialism
fuck off to /soc/

>>6842170
Hard Rain Falling was bretty good.
Translated Dead Souls? If so which one are you going with?

>>6842188
>muh materialism

Don't like it, go live in a cave.
[Spoiler]You, and everything around you is material. [/spoiler]

>>6842188
Kek. I take book recs from these threads since people like you just shit post everywhere. You probably don't even read.

>>6842185
I'll check it out, thanks. And yeah I have a huge boner for NYRB, I like most of what they publish.

>>6842190
Unfortunately, yes. I only speak English and French for now. I, admittedly, have not done extensive research on the translation, though I should. I was going to trust NYRB, but it's a "new translation" by Donald Rayfield, and im a little apprehensive to try new translations. What would you recommend?

>>6842031
Bukowski...
Bold OP, bold.

I can't say im a fan, but hey, whatever gets you going. Is this your first?

>>6842255
Bernard Guerney's is supposed to be the best translation.

>>6842259
Yes. This was my first Bukowski and probably my last. I liked the first 3 chapters but rest seemed to be the same thing.

>Look at all these books I'll never read /lit/, please

>>6842188
poor fag go away

>>6842108
But that scene with the kneeling, bowed woman when the kid is all grown up is in those chapters. So youre wrong.

>>6842072
>http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310

This will help, and read Poetic Designs by Stephen Adams.

>>6842045
What is a DKK

Picked this up today.

>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Dubliners
>Gone with the Wind
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>A Tale of Two Cities
>Count of Monte Cristo
>William Shakespeare: Complete Plays
>H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales
>Les Miserables

I think that was it. Mint condition and scooped em all up for $10

Rate, please~

>>6844495
>"Hi /lit/ I'm just trying to get back into reading, do you think I can go to Gravity's Rainbow straight after Notes from the Underground..?"

$.50 a piece at a resale shop. Somebody left their phone number in As I Lay Dying. Might call it later when I've had a few.

The Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke


Hagakure

The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman (The Way of the Warrior Series)

The Book of Five Rings

>>6844495

>taking a meme publisher this seriously

+
The Confessions by St. Augustine
Selected Philosophical Writings by Thomas Aquinas

Stoner - John Williams
A menina sem estrela - Nelson Rodrigues
Billy Budd + The Confidence-Man - Herman Melville

>>6842188
>mommy won't buy me things
>she says I'm 30 and should have a job
>fukkin wage slave
>parents are plebs

>>6846024
You're mom is a meme publisher

>>6846139
cant wake up

>>6846024
>oxford world classics
>meme
You're a meme, barnaclehead.
actually no, you're not, because memes are popular and you're an autist and autists aren't ever popular except when they're given pity by the non spectrum folk.

>>6842170
Can you read Russian? I've heard Platonov is almost completely lost in translation.

Got this yesterday. Does it actually make you read better?

>>6842108
failure to appreciate a major work is on you, not the author. You don't have insight that critics have overlooked, you just have delusions

>>6846024
Who are the best publishers? Is there a chart

>>6848042
>>6848042

Yes, read it about a month ago. It really has more of a focus on non-fiction though. But it has entire sections on Plays, novels and so on. It's a good read and it helped me.

>>6848042
It's better for academic reading rather than fiction. Still a good book imo.

>>6842031

This is all that i've bought over the past few months. Pls don't make fun of me I know i'm a pleb. Surprised to find Rage for $1.95 at a local used book store.

Fountainhead - Rand
Portrait of an Artist - Joyce
Bluest Eye - Morrison
Metamorphosis & Other Stories - Kafka
Nonexistant Knight & Cloven Viscoint - Calvino
Stories of Your Life & Others - Chiang

You guys aren't buying brand-new copies of books you haven't read before, right?

can't wait tbh

>>6848195
Not everyone is poor.

>>6848095
>Dawn
Just finished reading that the other day, the dude is incredible. What's your favourite album of his?

>>6848573
Probably The Glow pt. 2. It's the popular choice but it's so amazing. Dawn is one of my favorites too and Live In Japan (which was recorded over the February he was gone in the book) is really good. I like how he mentions Mikhaela (X, i'm sure) in the song The Blow pt. 2 off of Live In Japan. I highly reccommend checking that one out. It's weird listening to it and thinking that that's Phil as he was during the time in his book.
It Was Hot is really good too. The Pull and Sand are two of my favorite songs of all time.

>Purchase

I seriously don't understand the logic behind buying a book, especially if the author is dead.
You're just paying the bills of some schmuck publisher or some good for nothing grand kids who have been living off royalties their whole life.

Save money you half wits, no one cares about your taste when they see your bookcase.

I haven't read since before college and this is like my first foray back into literature

>>6848607
cont. I just know stephen king is popular and that that cover is cool as fuck. Pretty much nothing else

>>6848594
reading on the screen hurts my eyes and I can't focus for very long. It turns an enjoyable experience into a chore. also makes it harder to fall asleep when I'm done reading.

>>6848609
great pic, this is my favorite of his by far and it's both very long and very accessible, which is like perfect for someone who is just getting back into reading. It will give you reading practice (which, believe me, is neccesary if you want to get back into reading a lot) without being overly taxing.

Not sure whether to just lurk through used book shops for most of these titles or whether to buy them new. After looking through the thread a lot of the literature I want to pick up seems to be readily available in charity shops and the like.

Him With His Foot in His Mouth by Saul Bellow
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
High Spirits by Robertson Davies

I've read 4-5 of Bellows, he ranges from pretty bad (Henderson) to incredible (Humboldt's Gift, Dangling Man). Someone mentioned Herzog, which is def his most famous, but I honestly found it underwhelming, although certainly worth reading.

I've read The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled by Ishiguro, both of which were incredible, the former especially.

Never read Washington Irving, in fact the only thing I know about him is it was once fashionable to sign his name in place of your own for a gag. Book's cover is sick tho.

Davies is probably my favorite guy right now, trying to read his discography before school starts back up. The Deptford Trilogy changed my life.

Just received these books which were ordered off Amazon

The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective
Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950's, '60's & '70's
and I Am Better Than Your Kids, by Maddox

I read through Maddox's book in no time. It's 300 pages but the passages are short, had a few laughs though. If you like his website, you'd probably like this book.

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! Is an anthology of a bunch of stories that appeared in old sweat mags, basically providing the kind of manly escapism people play video games for today. The titles and covers alone have made me laugh out loud and the deadpan, man-to-man style makes the stories very readable. I haven't finished it yet but I'm already sold on the next one if it ever comes out. Some of the stories would probably be offensive as fuck to some more sensitive folk, but it doesn't make any difference to me.

I just started Essential Ellison and Jesus Christ I don't know what I've gotten myself into. This is a thousand or so page book, full of this guys short stories. I'd read some of his stuff before and seen his Watching clips on YouTube and decided to get some of his books. As it turned out, this compilation was available and it will save me a lot of shelf space. All that can be said about Harlan has been said already, so all I can do is agree that he's a good writer and fantasist. Some thoughtful and disturbing stuff, would probably offend just as many people today as it did when it was released, if not more due to the new wave of tenderfoots.

Pancatantra is pretty fun so far. Tao Te Ching was decent as well, though it seems there is hot debate over translations, but nothing too major, as I've compared them all on a website that had side by side versions.

Any recommendations on bookstores? Online or physical?

>>6848712

The Book Depository

>>6848713
Thank you

pretty happy with them. the graphic work on the trial isn't the best tho.

>>6848607
I only read about 400 pages but I remember I loved it. I think I stopped because I had just watched the miniseries before it. Should probably start back up on it again.

Top row: First English Edition of I Am a Cat, The Complete Novels of Flann O'Biren, and a nifty little journal bound in leather.
Below: Early edition of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabovov, and facsimile of the poem complete with note cards.

>>6848095
That is a great deal for a Rage paperback.

Time to get educated on reality.

>>6848594
i only pay for books of living authors that i like, Wolfe for example.

>>6848625
you probably will have problems finding the Ego and his own, for a new liberty in used book shops.
the others are easy to find.

>>6851479
>Time to get educated on pure shit.

>>6851628
Your faggotry only affirms my viewpoints.

>>6851635
>I will make my home inside of this bubble

>>6851640
>I will criticize something by calling it shit and expect someone to take my words as a statement that says anything

Added some new Franklin Library, Easton Press and Folio Society editions this week to replace some old paperbacks. More pics to follow.

>>6851687

>>6851697

>>6851687
Really nice. Were you partaking in the Folio Society summer sale?

Recently Bought:

Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf,

Beloved- Toni Morrison,

Oranges are not the only fruit- Jeanette Winterson,

Mums' hand me downs:

Selected Poems By Dylan Thomas,

The Wizard Of Oz- L. Frank Baum,

I share a lot of books with my mum, it's the only thing that we have that's just ours to bond over.

>>6851697
>>6851702
I'm jelly

>>6851708
All were purchased second hand from a used book store that I found in the basement of a house in my area.

I've never ordered a book direct from Folio, but their new edition of Man in the High Castle is very tempting.

First Edition/First Print

Mason & Dixon

>>6851741
The image is too small, I can't see anything

>>6842031
nah

>>6851750
I'm not here to please you. I'm here to jerk myself off.

Pic related

>>6851777
autistic

>>6851787
>being this threatened by something beyond your intellectual capacity
stick to pynchon and dfw kid

>>6851655
>implying I was the other guy
>implying you won't make your home in a dome, nevermore this world to roam

>>6851814
>implying you are going to learn anything about thermodynamics without being in a college setting

>implying that you could barely graduate high school


yes, yes I am.

>>6851777
>>6851787
Mirin my trips??

>>6851822
Watch the crossfire

latest charity shop haul

>>6842170
Ah, the Three Christs. Gifted it to both my girlfriend and one of my best mates, they both loved it. Great book. Also, nice to see some love for Deleuze's Cinema! I advise you to read them before jumping into Tarkovskij's book, since it's pretty lackluster and not interesting on its own.

Here's my haul. Kind of. Gravity's rainbow is coming with the mail.

>>6849215
>Franklin Library

I have the fisk, great book m8.

>>6852904
Oh fuck yeah Kornel Esti is a goddamn masterpiece screw everything else you have there and read that book immediately you need it in your life right now hottdamnn

>>6853150
well that's good to know. i loved skylark and literally just bought this based on that

>>6853136
>folio society*
got the fisk book from a charity shop for £1.50. doesn't look like it's ever been read.

>>6851479

>reality

I think you meant 'being an edgy reactionary basement dweller' there

>>6851723
>All were purchased second hand from a used book store that I found in the basement of a house in my area.
nice. how much did it all come to?

>>6853238
you got me, I am now experiencing total worldview collapse

>>6842031
Wow all male authors. Sexist.

>>6853150
three chapters later i gotta say gosh, you're right
that fucking train journey

>>6842031
Very good choices OP (except Bukowski)
Also, Maupassant's novels aren't as good as his short stories

>>6853368
Another anon, the train journey is one of my favorite chapters of all books

I don't know if you've read Bohumil Hrabal, but I think you'd like him, that's what the chapter reminded me of.

>>6851804
>I'm gunna try to be an alpha on a board full of epsilons
Are you the king of the nerds or something?

Picked up Nausea and The Quiet American in perfect condition for $1 at a garage sale today

Kid said he got them for his college class and never opened them and didn't plan on reading them

>>6853247
The total for all three pictures was $ 285 CDN.

>>6851702
mirin the donne folio

>>6853252

Your worldview is so flimsy it can't even collapse in the first place

>>6855347
I was very happy to find that one. Didn't even know Folio had an edition of his prose.

>>6855355
You speak from great evidence and knowledge

>>6850624
Where can I get that Facsimile Pale Fire?

>>6856520
http://www.amazon.com/Pale-Fire-Poem-Cantos-Shade/dp/1584234318

The book itself is wonderfully designed, but the binding is shit. Seriously, it's held together by staples.
The overall package is nice though, the note cards make for a cool novelty.
Sort of worth the price, but I'd only recommend it for die-hard fans.