/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2820209]

Let's make a recent purchase thread?

Since I'm going to work now I won't be able to talk about the books at this moment, but when I get to the office I'll check the thread.

Savage detectives - Roberto Bolaño

[Anonymous No.2820211]

The secret weapons - Julio Cortázar

[Anonymous No.2820214]

Bonsai - Alejandro Zambra

[Anonymous No.2820229]

I know it's mirrored, and I'm terribly sorry.

[Anonymous No.2820228]

Foundation and Empire (Sadly there were no copies of a hardback print in stock)
2312

Both arrived in the mail today.

[Anonymous No.2820232]

[Anonymous No.2820251]

Why not take a picture of all the books at once?

[Anonymous No.2820268]

Christ this is fucking ridiculous

[Anonymous No.2820277]

>>2820251
I was just copying what OP did. I'm sorry ;_;

[Anonymous No.2820279]

>>2820251

OP here, I think it's easier to see the cover.

>>2820229

Which book is this one? This year, Ulysses has been released in my country with a new translation, the publisher made a huge thing out of this, so big that all the desire that they created in the beginning vanished.

[Anonymous No.2820281]

>>2820209
I bought this, read it and realised I've grown so tired for the alt-lit scene.
If Scott McClanahan's Collected Stories doesn't give me the same satisfaction I use to receive I may just give up on the scene altogether and just go back to buying whatever HTMLgiant gives good reviews too.

[Anonymous No.2820284]

>>2820279
The Dubliners. It was like, £1 in my local Oxfam, so I felt obliged to pick it up.

[Anonymous No.2820306]

W.G. Sebald's Campo Santo. Reading the essay on Bruce Chatwin right now.

[Standard Toaster !TOASTdnWDc No.2820322]

Pale Fire - Nabokov
Suttree - McCarthy
Child of God - McCarthy

[Anonymous No.2820573]

>>2820306
Posting campo santo ebokk
http://www.mediafire.com/?scrn8h3d8unn7sn

and Rings of Saturn ebook
http://www.mediafire.com/?ah8b89hc0c9jis5

Just in case anybody wants them

[kakarookee !!h1votot6Zr1 No.2820583]

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

still in the mail

[Anonymous No.2820591]

Chilling with mah non-fiction

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2820614]

Last book I bought was Mitchell's Ghostwritten.

Plan to order a book on C programming in a couple days.

[Anonymous No.2820617]

Beckett- Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable
Maugham- Of Human Bondage
Joyce- The Essential James Joyce (contains all of Dubliners, Portrait, Exiles and part of his other stuff, and I found it for $1.50 so I felt I had to get it)
Kafka's complete stories
Darwin- On Natural Selection

[Anonymous No.2820619]

Ordered The Recognitions. It took them 5 days to dispatch it, which is annoying, but I'm very excited.

[Anonymous No.2820642]

>>2820619

I'll be starting the recognitions next week, it's mmy first gaddis. Have you tried anything else by him?

[Anonymous No.2820659]

>>2820642
Yes, just finished Carpenter's Gothic recently. I wouldn't call it captivating but it was clever and interesting in many ways, with lots of nice insights that made me want to underline them in pencil (haters gonna hate). I'd say I enjoyed it 7/10.

[Anonymous No.2820686]

>>2820659
I want to try The Heart of the Heart of the Country, just the name sounds so captivating...

Anybody with an epub, dont be shy and share it!

[Garland !iiA80eLVpY No.2820689]

I picked up copies of

Dolores--Jaqueline
Cujo--King
The Crying of Lot 49--Pychon
Deadeye Dick--Vonnegut
The Bean Trees--Kingsolver
The Left Hand of Darkness--Le Guin
and Choke--Palanhuik.

For less than 15 bucks.
Gotta love thrift stores :D

I've read Dolores and The Bean Trees and TLHOD and Choke, but I'm super stoked to read Deadeye Dick and TCOL49. Pychon isn't as tough to read as y'all make him out to be.

[Anonymous No.2820699]

>>2820689
Don't get upset with Deadeye Dick. it's not his strongest novel, but Vonnegut is crazy awesome, go on to Mother Night, Breakfast of Champions and Timequake, if you haven't already.

Pynchon's only really difficult in Gravity's Rainbow.

[Garland !iiA80eLVpY No.2820720]

>>2820699
The Crying will make a good warmup for Gravity's Rainbow!
I'm halfway through Breakfast. His drawings are growing tiresome; they seem to contribute little, besides the thematic lack of seriousness a la Trout and a bit of comedy. Any insight, fellas? I feel like I'm missing something.

Night Mother was my first Vonnegut. :D Timequake is SO next.

[Anonymous No.2820759]

>>2820720
Yeah the drawings aren't seriously meant to be helpful, but are just a way to set the tone. A way to look at things that are familiar and simple as if they were new. You're not missing anything with them, they're just kind of warming you up for the strangeness that's going to happen to Trout.

[Anonymous No.2820815]

>>2820689
>>2820689
>The Bean Trees
Get ready to really hate that book. All the males in that book are depicted as assholes.

[Garland !iiA80eLVpY No.2820852]

>>2820815
Already read it an enjoyed it thoroughly. Only Angel was portrayed as an asshole due to his masculinity, in my opinion. Alice's husband was a bit of a douche too, I suppose. Taylor practically worshiped Estevan, though.

You need to learn to remove yourself emotionally from the story. Maybe it's because I'm kind of gay that I don't mind Kingsolver's habitual male-bashing, who knows?

[Anonymous No.2820854]

>>2820852
/kind of/ gay? that's nice.

[Anonymous No.2820862]

>>2820852
I think that Kingsolver is one of the worst female writers I ever read. She is unable to write a realistic male. I was not emotionally involved that was the problem with her work, it is un-movingand actually really boring.

Of course this is only my opinion many people might think differently.

[Garland !iiA80eLVpY No.2820874]

>>2820862
If you haven't read The Prodigal Summer and Animal Dreams, those might change your mind. They've got pretty strong male characters.

Do you have qualms with her writing outside her characterization? I only ask because I'm entranced by a lot of her writing.

[Anonymous No.2820907]

>this thread
>>2820322 - 1.17 MB, 2592x1456
>>2820591 - 1.99 MB, 3264x2448
>in addition to excessive image sizes, both have shitty lighting, quite blurry, extraneous uncropped shit all around

jesus christ, you guys are equally as computer illiterate as my 90-year-old grandmother e-mailing me digital photos. spam advertisements would have been a better use of bandwidth than your circa-1870s jpegs.

[Anonymous No.2820959]

I bought Blindsight by Peter Watts today. Not the prettiest edition available, but at least it's the cheapest one.
I've just remembered I wasn't supposed to buy any new books, ughhh.

[Anonymous No.2821009]

I picked these up at a weekly street market for books today.

[Anonymous No.2821012]

>>2820959
you know its up for free on his website, right

i mean, if all you care about is reading it

[Standard Toaster !TOASTdnWDc No.2821016]

>>2820907
I'm sorry for not a) having a nice camera and/or b) not taking the time out of my day to edit the pictures I take to satisfy you.
I just took a quick picture with my camera phone.

[Anonymous No.2821028]

>>2821012
Nah, I wanted to own it. If I cared about what's free on the Internet, I wouldn't buy any books at all.

[Anonymous No.2821640]

in the last few weeks I've picked up the following
Antwerp - Roberto Bolano
Berlin Stories - Robert Walser
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

I'm also hoping to get over to one of the local used bookstores here soon and get some more stuff cheap.

[Anonymous No.2821649]

I have all three books in this trilogy now in their first edition.