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Recent purchase thread?

Bought these for less than 10 dollars recently. Currently reading Notes from Underground and it's great so far.

>> No.3675108
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I got these yesterday. Steppenwolf is amazing and timeless.

>> No.3675157
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'Correction' - Thomas Bernhard
'Mrs. Dalloway' - Virginia Woolf
'The Emigrants' - W. G. Sebald
'Blood Meridian' - Cormac McCarthy
'The Stream of Life' - Clarice Lispector

>> No.3675174

"Sieges of the Middle Ages" - Philip Warner

"War of the Roses" - idk the book is too far to look up the author

"The Federalist" - a few guys

"President Nixon Alone in the White House" - Richard Reeves

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>>3675157
>'Correction' - Thomas Bernhard

Reading this now, really enjoy it. I think I'll get Bernhard's work on Wittgenstein's actual house he built for his sister, which wasn't the Cone as in the book, but I think the obsession is about accurate. The glue on my copy is falling apart though, every page I turn gets released from the binding. Really great cover on this edition though.

>> No.3675194

>>3675180

I haven't read 'Correction' yet but I'm quite excited to get into his work, I have a feeling Bernhard will end up being a favourite of mine.

Jealous of that cover. Far cooler than my copy.

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Egil's Saga
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
And Pelican Shakespeare editions of The Tempest, King Lear and Macbeth

for $11.25 total

>> No.3675206

>>3675194
>Jealous of that cover. Far cooler than my copy.

Yeah, well no use with the pages fallen out. Library stamped, too.

Have you read any other Bernhard? I got it after reading the Woodcutters, because of a Tao Lin review I think, which I also liked, very pissed. Thought it could've sliced deeper into the people he was deriding, which is great because Correction really gets in deep on Wittgenstein, whose actual work I've not looked into at all though I know I really should.

>> No.3675212

'Japanese Tales' by Royall Tyler - I'm interested in japanese culture, but this book was a great disappointment to be. Did anyone else read it?

>> No.3675215

The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - Delmore Schwartz
Dictionary of the Khazars (male edition) - Milorad Pavic
Maigret and the Madwoman - Georges Simenon
Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau
Don't Look Now - Daphne Du Maurier

for a total of 9$ i think

>> No.3675219

>>3675157
bernhard and lispector are the shit. they definitely exist on the same spectrum

>> No.3675225

>>3675219
Looked up 'The Stream of Life' - Clarice Lispector

>She parries with language (which is "only words which live off sound") and is wholly consumed with problems of epistemology: "I want to die with life."

Sounds like indulgent shit.

>I'm Scared That I Don't Find This All That Difficult October 18, 2005
>By Zachary A. Hanson
>Format:Paperback
>And that nobody has reviewed this piece for four years and I'm only the third one ever to do it. Maybe I've read too much Joyce, Cixous, Beckett, Celan, Kristeva, et al

Closed tab.

>> No.3675227

>>3675225
also frequently bought together is Andy Warhol's memoir and another reviewer said
> I was able to enjoy my reading of this work as one who lives fully
and another said it was oft compared to joyce

I feel like I'm suppose to recognize this book as one namedropped often.

>> No.3675242

Why do people buy books? Serious question, not simply trolling. I want you to actually think about why you buy books and explain it to me, because I don't understand.

You can access and obtain physical copies of pretty much any book at a library. Assuming it's not a very popular book, you can keep those books indefinitely.

>> No.3675251

>>3675242

>not supporting small publishers and writers

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bought this because the first one was a smooth read and I enjoyed it

>> No.3675259

>>3675242
>library
ewww

I'm not taking other peoples stinky used books into my bed

>> No.3675292

>>3675251
Why do you think taking a book out from the library doesn't show support for those publishers and writers? If there's enough demand for a book, the library can and may eventually order another copy for their use. They pay more to the publisher than someone who just buys a copy of the book. Plus, it's not like you're buying books directly from a publisher or a writer anyway.

If you're buying books used or from pretty much any retailer, you're not actually supporting the publisher or writers at all.

>> No.3675304

>>3675242

it's nice to own things for some reason, it takes on a new value for some reason

plus, i own hundreds of books now i can't take out a hundred books from the library at a time

>> No.3675320

>>3675304
>it's nice to own things for some reason
Cool blind consumerism.

>i can't take out a hundred books from the library at a time
I've got hundreds of books on my e-reader, which I can take with me anywhere I go.

>> No.3675331

>>3675320
cool

>>>/g/

>> No.3675333

>>3675242
My university library does not have the majority of the books I own. I'm not sure where you're getting the part about keeping them indefinitely.

When I do use the library for harder to find books, they have to inter library loan it. They take about a week to get here, and I'm only allowed to keep them two weeks. They're very rarely allowed to be renewed, and even then it would just be another two weeks. And that's it. Not indefinitely at all.

I buy books related to the areas I want to teach eventually. I keep personal annotations in them, as well as notes and references for future classes. I couldn't do that with a library book, especially one I only get to keep for a short while. I can't do it with ebooks, seeing as most of what I'm writing in doesn't have an ebook version yet.

>> No.3675343

>>3675320

>consumerism

>owning timeless works of information is consumerist

I agree, you could use an e-reader, but there's something traditional about holding a book in your hands. It may be overly-nostalgic, but it's not consumerist.

>unless you're buying the latest YA supernatural fantasy book, then it's actually consumerist.

>> No.3675412

>>3675320

having a particular interest and taking value out of ownership is not necessarily consumerism

there is something about the tangible that attaches more meaning

someone has probably done a useful analysis drawing into ideas of makes, man alienated from his labour etc having tangible objects (books, vinyl etc) as opposed to mere files in the ether

someone who buys thousands of e-books for their e-reader is more consumerist than someone who values a collection of books

>> No.3675415

>>3675412

>idea of makes

ideas of marx (and others)

hungover sorry

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>buying books
more like a 'recent example of being an idiot thread'

>> No.3675470

>>3675343
>I agree, you could use an e-reader, but there's something traditional about holding a book in your hands. It may be overly-nostalgic, but it's not consumerist.
you are a fetishistic, consumerist whore
face it, coward

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Got these yesterday. May be fetishist but I see no problem

>> No.3676439

>>3675333
>When I do use the library for harder to find books, they have to inter library loan it.
>most of what I'm writing in doesn't have an ebook version yet.

This, if you really believe e-readers are a suitable replacement for anything other than school textbooks, you need to expand your taste.

>> No.3676443

>>3675470
Consumerism in a bad sense is buying things that you will not use.
Some people enjoy owning things that they like.

>> No.3676468

Just got Of Mice and Men and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

On a side note, Books a Million can go fuck itself. Their prices are absurd. Sadly it's the only bookstore near me so I have to deal with spending over 20 dollars for 2 books, one of which is a basically novella.

/rant

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>>3675470

My God, you're an asshole.

Is it your time of the month, or did your boyfriend refuse to pump your ass last night?

>> No.3676537

>>3676515
But he's right.

>> No.3676541

>>3675242
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

>> No.3676549

>>3676541
>having one's life reduced to ejaculating
amazing

>> No.3676553

>>3675470
technically speaking buying anything, or investing in any commodity, makes you a consumerist

>> No.3676578

>>3676537

>a troll
>actually correct

I shouldn't deign to respond to this, but I will.
Consumerism as we define it today has to do with the over-consumption or purchasing of things because of media or peer pressure. Purchasing books in order to gain knowledge is absolutely not consumerist. Purchasing hard copies, while indulgent and perhaps gluttonous, is not consumerist, as it is not being purchased because of media or peer pressure unless it's something like Twilight or the latest teen fiction.

I await your prostrate form in reverence of my absolute intellect.

>> No.3676592

>>3676578
>dat convinient omission of contrast between post-scarcity ebooks with expensive, inconvenient, fancy, vain, withering paper
purchase of physical books is driven either by (excusable if brief) ignorance or by vain and lowly instincts and pressures

>> No.3676853

>>3676592
How are the reasons in >>3675333 ignorant or vain?

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Fiction: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun - JRR Tolkien
Non-Fiction: Drugs, Society and Human Behaviour 6th Edition 1993 O Ray and C Ksir

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1. Why are simple McCarthy paperbacks so overpriced?
2. Why are there no nice hardcover editions?

>> No.3676963

>>3676592
Purchase of physical books is good for a number of reasons
>permanent ownership
>appreciates in value
>physically pleasing
>More transportable than ebooks
>aesthetic appeal (bookshelves are sexy)
>Entire printing, binding and typesetting arts
>Dont require charging
>Not likely to be stolen
Can you imagine what life would have been like if the Greeks had kept everything in digital storage? We wouldn't have most of what we have today. Do you really want that for future generations?

>> No.3676966

>>3676953
>Reading individual works by Plato

I'd like to direct your attention here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Works-Plato/dp/0872203492/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366500052&sr=8-1&keywords=plato+complete+works
It will save you huge amounts and it is a nice book. I know, I have it.

>> No.3676973

>>3676953
$ $ $

>> No.3676978

>>3675108
>Steppenwolf

what translation you got?

>> No.3676982

>>3676966
Didn't see that at B&N, if they don't have it next time I'll make sure to have them order it in.

>> No.3676983

>>3676953
1.They like suckers
2.See 1

>> No.3676986

>>3676963
>not likely to be stolen

I'd like to add "less of a loss when destroyed" too. I will never buy my mother an ereader over physical books, because the children she's raising would destroy it as soon as they saw it. They don't give a shit about a regular book, and even if they destroyed one it's a $4 loss instead of a $80+ one.

>> No.3676988

>>3676983
I like to have nice editions of books I particularly like.

>> No.3676993

>>3676983
Though I do admit that the two questions right next to each other is a bit comical.

>> No.3677037

>>3676963

but all dat is like psychological man

>> No.3677038

>>3677037

Your will to live is psychological too. Now please kill yourself.

>> No.3677050

yeah, red's cool

>> No.3677243

>>3676963
>don't require charging
>aesthetically pleasing

These two reasons are the main reason I still buy physical books, even though 90% of my actual reading is now done on a Nook.

>> No.3677260

>>3677037
So is preferring ebooks to normal books, why should that stop me liking it?

>> No.3677322

>>3676592
Hey man, physical books don't hurt anyone. Paper is mostly made from renewable trees nowadays.
Sure it's indulgent, but real consumerism is buying shit you have no use for.

>> No.3677410

Just picked this up for half-off with a couple Rufus Wainwright CDs. Gonna be a good weekend

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Just picked this'un up for half-off with a couple Rufus Wainwright CDs. Gonna be a good weekend.

>> No.3677425

>>3677420
not sure why this just posted twice...

>> No.3678388

>>3676978
Didn't see you there.
Translated by: Joseph Mileck, Borst Frenz

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Nowadays I'm exploring...

"Pioneers of Russian Science Fiction"

>> No.3678620

The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton
The Woman In The Dunes - Abe
Atomised - Holloubecq
Winter's Tale - Helprin
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles (Fagles)
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
The Plot Against America - Roth
The Human Stain - Roth
The Man without Qualities - Musil

Went to the used bookstore yesterday and feel pretty good about my haul.

>> No.3678653

>>3678559
Wow, that's some seriously obscure shit. (Speaking as a Russian.)

>> No.3678654 [DELETED] 

Consumer whore thread.
Buys books, never reads them.
INB4 butthurt

>> No.3678656

>>3678653
Hahaha. Is a translation to spanish of some old russian sci-fi stories between 1892-1906

>> No.3678678

>>3678656
I understand. They're just _really_ obscure authors, not at all what you'd imagine in a generic 'early Russian sci-fi' anthology.

>> No.3678689

>>3678654
but anon, you are the butthurt

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Ulysses
Edwin Drood
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

My Ulysses is only 726 pages. Did I do well?

>> No.3678819

>>3678811
Mine is only 682

I don't like this game

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>>3678811
This bloke here
>>3675553

War and Peace is decent. But drags once a character becomes a mason. Last battle is superb though.

You could've bought this edition of Camus's works.

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Got this for £0.50... not read any Ballard since "Concrete Island" years ago.

>> No.3678956

>>3678837
>War and Peace is decent
pls retract this understatement

>> No.3678969

>>3675553
Watch that Wordsworth Classics edition, they can be pretty shitty editions.