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Anonymous Sat Oct 12 14:47:42 2019 No.13980519 [Reply] [Original]

Went to a library sale, here’s my haul. 7 dollars. Post recent hauls.

Anonymous Sat Oct 12 15:16:33 2019 No.13980674

>>13980519

Lately picked up:
Gravity's Rainbow-Pynchon
The Leopard-Lampedus
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories-Gogol
The Little Friend-Donna Tartt
The House of the Spirits-Isabel Allende
The Third Policeman- Flann O'Brien
Finnegans Wake-James Joyce
In a Glass Darkly/Carmilla-Le Fanu

What's a good edition of Le Morte D'Arthur to get? I've been seeing Wordsworth editions of it in some charity shops I frequent and the thing looks massive but I'm incredibly wary of Wordsworth giving how cheap the quality of their books are. I'm willing to save up for a much nicer looking edition and I've been wanting to get more into Arthurian myths since reading Sir Gaiwain earlier this year.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 15:28:40 2019 No.13980751 File: 3.27 MB, 4032x3024, 1F4411C0-BC15-45B1-B6EE-B65BBC504111.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Am I cool now

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 15:34:49 2019 No.13980784 File: 10 KB, 251x242, 1569722255127.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13980751 >translations

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 15:41:56 2019 No.13980819 >>13980519 That's a really pretty copy of The Call of the Wild. The paperbacks look really beat up though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 16:27:30 2019 No.13981069 the best thing about library sales are that the books are wrapped neatly in plastic

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 16:28:30 2019 No.13981074 >>13980519 Imagine paying for something other people have touched. Like going to the whorehouse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 16:30:24 2019 No.13981084 >>13980751 You're on your way.

Anonymous Sat Oct 12 16:48:01 2019 No.13981173
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>>13980519
Finished reading the Ramayana a month ago. Found them for $71 last week.
>>13980784
I love translations. If you want, I can take a picture of all 300+ books I have that are translated

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 20:31:49 2019 No.13982354 Bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:29:56 2019 No.13983368 >>13980751 Not bad but needs more Hegel

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:33:03 2019 No.13983381 File: 73 KB, 1012x1012, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13980674 >Finnegans Wake

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:52:34 2019 No.13983462 >>13980674 >What's a good edition of Le Morte D'Arthur to get? Norton (beware, the essays are a bit pozzed, way more and better footnotes tho), or Penguin.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:55:41 2019 No.13983473 >>13980751 >On Being Blue >book is purple

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 03:00:49 2019 No.13983856 File: 183 KB, 640x640, 1562653078017.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13981074 ah but anon... these whores are cheap

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 03:34:35 2019 No.13983955 >>13980519 I wish there were sales so cheap here. Sucks living in overpriced third world where bookdepository is the cheapest.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 08:51:04 2019 No.13984749 >>13981173 based translationist i'll be beyond triple digits on bookcount p.a. while all original fags are learning their 3rd dead language.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 10:11:13 2019 No.13985021 >>13980751 I couldn't make heads or tails of the Gass when i read, but I put that down to being a brainlet more than anything else.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:49:12 2019 No.13986089 Bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:39:40 2019 No.13987200 >>13981173 What tranlslation of the ramayana did you read?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 20:27:07 2019 No.13988299 >>13987200 Debroy,same for Mahabharata

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 22:08:24 2019 No.13988771 >>13980751 invitation is super good. best nabokov

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 22:19:39 2019 No.13988812 >>13980751 >Nabokov >Aristotle >Confessions of St. Augustine Patrician tier.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 01:31:38 2019 No.13989725 >>13981173 Good Lord, I had no idea the Mahabharta was that long. How much time would it take to read all of it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 01:39:16 2019 No.13989762 >>13984749 >i'll be beyond triple digits on bookcount you'll never be reading the actual books tho lmao just some shit translation, aka another man's words, aka ur not reading the book hahah

Anonymous Mon Oct 14 02:39:13 2019 No.13989956
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>>13980519
You did better than me. I went to my first library sale this weekend and got these. $3 total. I was really unprepared for the chaos of the book resellers hunting for valuable books, and the old people who fill up bags and bins with books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 02:41:34 2019 No.13989965 >>13980674 >The Third Policeman Based, read that one first.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 03:04:26 2019 No.13990027 >>13989725 110-140 hours probably

Anonymous Mon Oct 14 03:10:17 2019 No.13990046

>>13989956
I went to a book sale at my city's central library and was more impressed by the number of people who showed up than the actual books on offer, which were pretty prosaic. The fact that I had to wait an hour to get in was kind of encouraging in a weird way. Even if they are just re-selling them then that means there's still demand, somewhere. I wonder why the libraries don't sell on abebooks themselves.

Anonymous Mon Oct 14 03:16:11 2019 No.13990057

>>13990046
Same here. I imagined I would walk in, see about 3 people in there, and leisurely browse the stacks and piles of books. After all, who goes to a library sale? Apparently everyone, because it was wall-to-wall people in there. There was one guy who was running back and forth, frantically dumping stacks of books into his car's trunk.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 03:17:16 2019 No.13990059 File: 382 KB, 2048x1536, book haul.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13980519 just picked up pic related, not much of a reader but pretty excited to jump in!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 08:08:27 2019 No.13990754 >>13990059 cringe

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 09:20:15 2019 No.13991000 >>13989956 Nice haul! Three Men in a Boat is a fun little read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 09:47:13 2019 No.13991077 File: 1.67 MB, 4032x3024, IMG_5311.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13989956 Still a pretty nice haul. I also picked up Foucault's Pendulum a few days ago.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 09:49:28 2019 No.13991084 File: 1.38 MB, 4032x3024, IMG_5310.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13991077 Got this stack as well, along with Don Quixote and The Art of the Deal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 14:18:29 2019 No.13992308 >>13990059 No turner diaries. Disappointed

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:12:39 2019 No.13992567 >>13981074 Only suckers pay retail

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:19:23 2019 No.13992593 >>13990059 3/5 are good

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 15:19:27 2019 No.13992594 >>13988771 I prefer the one with the guy fucking an underage girl personally

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 18:20:08 2019 No.13993786 >>13992594 Based

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 14 19:35:34 2019 No.13994281 File: 2.88 MB, 5312x2992, DSC_0139.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] £4 from a charity shop today

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 01:04:59 2019 No.13995898 >>13990059 You're on a list, aren't you?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 02:42:05 2019 No.13996205 >>13990059 >Heretical protestant translation Yikes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 04:08:14 2019 No.13996361 >>13991000 I’m glad to see the positive opinion of it. I’m planning to start on it once I finish my current book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 04:09:32 2019 No.13996364 >>13991077 Are you also a fan of Eco?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 04:11:39 2019 No.13996370 File: 1.68 MB, 3264x1836, EXTREME.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13996205 get on my level

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 04:41:38 2019 No.13996421 >>13983955 Abebooks

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 04:53:50 2019 No.13996450 >>13996205 based, holy, catholic, and apostolic. which version do you read? i have a beautiful leatherbound Ignatius Bible that is an absolute delight to read in concert with my catechism before bed

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 05:41:53 2019 No.13996533 >>13989956 Nice. Everythings in really good condition. That copy of Foucaults Pendulum looks like it hasnt even been opened like all copies of Foucaults Pendulum

Anonymous Tue Oct 15 07:37:09 2019 No.13996918
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>>13990059
>>13996205
>>13996450
>reading anything other than a common vernacular translation like NIV/ESV.
Pompous Catholics back at it again trying to ruin Christianity for everyone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 15 07:41:46 2019 No.13996934 >>13996450 I have the Baronius Press Douay Rheims

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