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If so what book(s) and why?

>> No.14051762

>>14051672
Vonnegut in French and English because I wanted a easy read while I was learning a second language.

>> No.14051782

>>14051672
I have the illiad in two translations. the first copy i inherited the second I bought (chapman's)

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Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura.
Because there’s hundreds of different translations and I was just shopping around for a good one.

>> No.14051911

Kafka is my favorite author so I have a thing where whenever I see a copy of Metamorphosis at a used book store I buy a copy, I have 5 English, 2 German, and 1 French

>> No.14051940

what a sexy lady, I will masturbate to this drawing again

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The Warrior-Prophet by R. Scott Bakker.

I thought I lost it so I bought a new one. Later found the first copy a year or so later.

2nd Omnibus of The Black Company

Dropped it while eating blueberry and raspberry pancakes. Blue and red juice and maple syrup all of the pages. Had to buy another copy.

>> No.14051991

>>14051672
Lao Tzu, Lau and Wu both cover different aspects with their translations, one clarifies the other; you miss too much using just one

>> No.14052165

>>14051815
What’s a good one?

>> No.14052278

>>14052165
Of the four I have, I like the Humphries best. Titled The Way Things Are

>> No.14052286

>>14051672
Me in the pic.

>> No.14052289

Hegel's Reason in History. I had an old secondhand copy, and I found a newer secondhand copy.

>> No.14052306

I have two copies of Ulysses, a recent paper back to write in and the first published hardback in the states after the ban was lifted. I have doubles of at least 50 books, 1 (usually paperback) for note taking/defacing and the other is usually a hardback and a rarer publishing.

>> No.14052322

>>14051762
How do the French translations hold up?

>> No.14052360

>>14051762
You should've gone with Camus.

>> No.14052370

I have Ulysses by Dover because it looks like the original edition and it was cheap and Ulysses by vintage for actual reading.

I have 3 Gravity's Rainbows because it's my favorite book and I want to collect as many covers as I can.

I have two Odysseys, Lattimore and Fitzgerald.

I have 3 bibles, one I got from sunday school in a translation I hate (NLT), one KJV for reading KJV, and one New Oxford for the notes. I also have a KJV NT I found in my grandparents house.

I also have some nice hardcovers my grandpa gave me that I have better translations of in paperback (namely Crime and Punishment, Confessions, Aristotle's Politics and Poetics).

I have a complete Shakespeare in hardcover and many plays in paperback (Folger) for easier reading.

Oh and I also have duplicates of a few volumes of Evangelion because Viz released a nicer edition.

I think that's it.

>> No.14052371

I have 2 copies of Tristram Shandy because I was drunk ordering books and ended up with 2. Luckily they were Wordsworth classics.

>> No.14052843

>>14051940
cumbrain

>> No.14052920

>>14051672
I have a box full of duplicates, I will buy a second or third copy of books I like for when someone asks 'can I borrow that.' I mostly buy used books, so the expense is nothing and it frees me from the headache of 'loaning' books out.

>> No.14052934

The Iliad because I dont know greck

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>>14052972

>> No.14052978

>>14051672
Have a bunch of copies of Paradise Lost.

>> No.14052985

>>14051672
I have two copies of the Lord of the Rings. One nice hardcover exlusive one which I barely touch (got it as a gift) and one pocket version which has been read to bits.

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>>14051672
i have multiple copies of some kipling books
example, pre-1930s editions have a picture of an elephant on the cover with a traditional hindu good luck symbol next to it
in the 1930s they had to redesign it because the germans fucked everything up again

>> No.14053058

>>14051672
sucks this artist doesnt actually draw porn

>> No.14053065

>>14051672
i have two different translation of journey by moonlight and another couple translations of

also two copies of Moby-dick because my first copy looks like shit

I also own the entire Scott pilgrim series in both the og b&w and the newish color ones

>> No.14053068

>>14053065
*and another couple translations of demons

>> No.14053072

>>14053065

I like Szerb. He doesn't get enough love or attention on /lit/ but I enjoy his descriptions a lot. Very cozy.

>> No.14053073

>>14051672
I own around 35 Bibles, various translations and Study Bibles of different sorts.

>> No.14053077

>>14053072
Glad to hear that, anon. I enjoy him a lot too. Still think about the penultimate chapter in JBM every now and then.

Any other Szerb or Hungarian lit recs? Looking to expand beyond anglo, western euro, and jap lit

>> No.14053373

I have about 6 copies of the Gulag Archipelago because I saw them at a library sale and the price that day was by the box.

>> No.14053669

>>14053073
Post pic

>> No.14053684

Ive got one Odessey in prose and one in verse. Ive also got cheap paperbacks of W&P, Anna K, Brothers K and C&P in english while having nicer hardbacks of them in Swedish.

>> No.14053700

>>14051991
I have five translations. If you can't understand a verse it helps a lot to see it from another angle.

>> No.14054394

I have two copies of Pilgrim's Progress. A Dover Thrifts edition and a nicer cloth bound one.

>> No.14055769

>>14051672
i inherited books from my grandma and she had crime and punishment tome 1, i read it and then my brother bought me the same book but all in one

>> No.14055879

1984 one version in Norwegian and one in English. Why? I didn’t buy them I wanted to read the book so I asked my grandmother if I could borrow my grandfathers copy. She brought forward both as a present as she didn’t want them so I accepted them because why not?

>> No.14055889

>>14055879
Funny thing is she still has at least one copy left. I don’t know why I assume my grandfather just forgot that he had the book in the first place so he bought it twice by mistake.

>> No.14055916

>>14051815
Why the fuck is there a pic of Sappho?

>> No.14055950

>>14051672
Two different translations of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
Two different editions of the same translation of Aristotle's Poetics, one of them also contains Rethoric
Two translations of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy since the one I got first was uncomprehensible.
I had two different translations of Sophocles' tragedies but gave one away
Two different editions of Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Two different editions of Lorca's La Zapatera Prodigiosa and The House of Bernarda Alba

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>>14052165

This Penguin hardback is my favorite. Great translation.

>> No.14055984

I have Kant's Critiques multiple times.
I have the KrV 5 times, KpV 2 times and KoJ 3 times.
I have a all critiques in one, an antique collection of all Kant works, and then KoJ again for a seminar and multiple extra copies of the KrV because there are some editions that have the transcendental Logic and Dialektik seperated which is really handy for seminars that only focused on one or because I like to keep the transcendental logic on me often. The rest to make it 5 is because I had one of my first with so many markings in the text when I first tried to understand it and wanted a new clearer one which I wasn't gonna treat like an autist anymore.
>Also have much of Kafka twice and Moby Dick twice solely due to appreciation
>many latin works I have in the only german or english translation and then again in the both latin/german(english) or just latin edition. (many philosophical works fall under this category but also much literature)
>greeks texts multiple times because of different translations
If I say I need money to buy a book my parents don't hesitate to give me money, which I am grateful for.

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>>14055916
That's actually a Roman fresco of some anonymous woman from Pomeii. People like to use it for just about anything, and no one has an accurate depiction of Sappho.

>> No.14056221

>>14051672
How does the anatamy of that grill even work

Her ass is the furthest from the camera

>> No.14056844

>>14051672
I always have an extra copy of Le Camps des Saints in case I can hand it over to someone, either for literary interest or as a test to see if I can take the guy seriously.
I've done it nine times as of now. Seven more redpilled people, another just rhetorically asked "wtf did I just read?" two weeks later, and one pleb complaining about ray sisme that got filtered hard.

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>>14055996
horrid_image_of_you.jpeg

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>>14051672
Quite a few. Usually it's multiple translations (Beowulf, Dante) or a reading copy and a nice/antique copy, or a Norton-type scholarly edition. Some times you just want the story itself. Occasionally I have a separate copy of a shorter work, and than an omnibus/collection that includes it.

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>>14051672
I own the paperback, hardback, kindle version and the audible version of Tiger Tiger

>> No.14057918

I have two copies of the Iliad (Fagles and Fitzgerald), the Odyssey (Fagles and Chapman).

3 Bibles (RSVCE, NAB, KJV) - The latter two were gifts

2 copies of the Political Writings of King James VI and I. The first copy was full of some retard's inane highlights and notes - sometimes full pages - and of course I can tell it's a woman. So I ordered a new copy

>> No.14057962

>>14053684
>Ive got one Odessey in prose and one in verse
yep
Odyssey is well worth reading in different translations

>> No.14058417

>>14051672
Some Michael Moorcock books I have multiples of, they're cheap and I can never remember which ones i have yet.

>> No.14058616

>>14057887
cute !

>> No.14058628

>>14051672
I own a lot of Stephen King duplicates. I also own two Dracula copies paperback; a hardcover War of the Worlds and a Kindle version of it; Alice's Adventures + Through the Looking-Glass paperback and hardcover. Not sure about any others.

>> No.14058659

>>14055971
The penguin hardbacks are really shit quality books. I fell for the trap myself. Don't buy.

>> No.14058937

Three copies of The Stranger. One to write in, one to pretend to read at my local artisan coffee shop, and one to display on my shelf, cover facing away from the wall.

>> No.14058955

I own three editions of Crime and Punishment because they are easy to find and reading a new translation each time is fun. Should probably donate two of them to a thrift store or something though, there's no excuse for hoarding them after I've read them.

>> No.14058964

>>14051672
I have multiple copies of several ancient Greek books, mainly to compare translations. Aside from that I have In Search of Lost Time in both English and French, and most of Flaubert's oeuvre in English and French.