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Recent purchases thread?

Sorry for the shit pic. Just got all this shit for 10 dollars (hardcovers are a Folio publication of The Silk Road by Frances Wood and The New Oxford Annotated Bible.)

>> No.7166949

/lit/ - muh materialism

>> No.7166979

No pics, but in the past month I got:
>Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
>A History of Russia by Riasanovsky
Currently reading both.

>> No.7167012
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For a Lit Crit class and for fun, I've recently picked up

>Collected Tennessee Williams, Vol.2
>Not About Nightingales, Tennessee Williams
>Henrik Ibsen Collection
>Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
>Coastal Disturbances Collection, Tina Howe (This is some playwright that my professor used to have a hardon for, I suspect)
>The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel
>Illustrated Gravity's Rainbow, Zak Smith
>Between the World and Me, YouKnowWho
>Slow Learner, Pinecone

and mo-fucker you know I'm headed to Half-Priced Books rn

>> No.7167088

>>7166949
glad we got that post out of the way

Tropic of Cancer is awesome, OP.

>> No.7167110
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I just finished The Jokers. Despite the title, I didn't find it all that funny.

>> No.7167456

>>7167110
How was it?

Cossery has been on my to read list for awhile.

>> No.7167508
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I'm enjoying Grapes of Wrath.

>> No.7167552

>>7167456
Like I said, the humor fell flat with you, but otherwise, I enjoyed it. It's very short (~140 pages) so I'd say give it a shot.

>> No.7167561

>>7167110
You will love the idiot

>> No.7167588

>doesn't have any friends to show off his books to so posts it on /lit/
here's the approval you're so desperate for not