/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.699293]

Got these for $10 at the thrift store today.

Good deals thread :3

[Anonymous No.699314]

I got all of this for $7 at a library booksale:

Ender's Game, Dune, Children of Dune, House Corrino/Harkonnen/Atreides, Les Miserables, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Word Finder (Like a thesaurus on steroids), Rainbows End, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Dialogues of Plato, Not Peace but a Sword, A Wrinkle in Time, The Red Badge of Courage, The Silence of the Lambs, Fahrenheit 451, The Naked God, The Russians (Travel Writing compilation from some guy who lived in Russia), and Brave New World.

Pretty much everything a newfag to /lit/ could ask for.

[Anonymous No.699321]

>>699314
In that case,
Welcome newfag.
:)

[Anonymous No.699325]

>>699314
I think I got the boxed set of the first four Dune books for $1 or so at a library book sale.

Getting good books for cheap is a great feeling.

[Anonymous No.699331]

>>699321
Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.699335]

I have that book of great letters!

[Anonymous No.699336]

>>699331
Nah but I kid the newfag.
That is a really good deal for all those books.

[Anonymous No.699338]

Damn, I saw that Rudyard Kipling collection at my local used bookstore for like $2, opted not to by it because I didn't want to appear pretentious to the store's only employee.
Me and my self-consciousness have kept me from buying so many awesome books.

[Anonymous No.699356]

I got Earthly Powers, Animal Farm, 1984 and some other book for a grand total of 40 cents.
Sure, they look kind of worn-out, but fuck it.

[Anonymous No.699361]

>>699338
I work at a bookstore, and I see so many fucking idiots buying James Patterson and Nora Roberts books all day that I would be so excited if I saw someone buying something "pretentious". It would make me not hate humanity so much and their retarded reading selections.

[Anonymous No.699366]

>>699361
OP here, the lady who checked me out said "Weyl, sumbuddy got sum readin ta do!"

Fucking Kentucky...

[Anonymous No.699371]

>>699293
Got all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in delicious leather bound glory for 50 cents yesterday.

[Anonymous No.699376]

>>699371
Pics? (out of curiosity)

[Anonymous No.699385]

>>699371

[Anonymous No.699422]

>>699314
I'll actually have to import Dune, since i can't find it anywhere for less 60 bucks.
;_;

[Anonymous No.699426]

>>699293
I've read one of the books as Oscar Wilde, "Playa"

[Anonymous No.699428]

>>699422
Here ya go. Buy it used for a penny. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0441172717/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

Sure, used books normally smell like urine, but a deal's a deal.

[Anonymous No.699436]

Hardcover:
23 of Shakespeare's plays
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
The Divine Comedy
Grapes of Wrath

Paperback:
Great Expectations
Outlines of all of Shakespeare's plays
The Story of Language-Mario Pei
The Great Gatsby
The Iliad
All Quiet on the Western Front

All of these books are at least 50 years old (most of them older), and they were all free. My grandma was an English teacher and she gives me her old books.
Thanks Meema :3

[Anonymous No.699444]

>>699428
>used books normally smell like urine

What is up with that, anyway? Is there some custom to pee on your books when you finish reading them that I'm unaware of? It's even worse when the pages are yellow, too.

[Anonymous No.699452]

>>699444
it's cat urine cos everyone knows the only readers that sell back to 2nd hand bookstores are older, lonely women

[op No.699458]

>>699444
Its mold I think. Especially if they've been stored in basements.

[Anonymous No.699463]

>>699458
I'm not op, I forgot to change that from another thread. sorry real op

[Anonymous No.699469]

>>699293
where are you going to fit those books your shelves are already full?

[Anonymous No.699468]

Man, and I thought getting McCarthy's Borderland Trilogy for 2,50€ was a good deal. It's practically new, though, has just a tiny scratch on the back.

[Anonymous No.699516]

>>699469
moar shelves

[Anonymous No.699540]

>>699293
>Bilbo le hobbit
wut?

[Anonymous No.699563]

Nice socks OP.

[Anonymous No.699565]

The local library by my house has a weekend book sale, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday every May and October. The first two days things are bought like normal.
However, Sunday is always the "Bag Sale." Every person that walks through the door gets a brown paper bag. You can shove as many books and items that you want in that bag, pile it to the Heavens if you will - it only costs FIVE DOLLARS.

I fucking love my library. :3 I've come home with bags upon bags of books, my room's walls are lined with them. Feels Good, Man. I've even found a lot of early 1900's, late 1800's books. Freaking sweet.

[Anonymous No.699571]

>>699293
Not trolling here,and this kinda does not apply to OP(since those are obviously great condition hard covers that can be displayed)
but why do so many of you guys bother buying old books? I am getting back into reading again, and i honestly dont want to deal with storing and carrying all these things when i'm reading so i'm opting to buy a ereader and just downloading all the classics...

Again, not really applicable to well cared for hard cover books....

[Anonymous No.699608]

>>699565
Hot damn, that's the exact same thing that happens at my local library. >>699314

You wouldn't happen to live in Pennsylvania, would you?

[Anonymous No.699831]

>>699540
To practice my French.

>>699563
:3

>>699571
Old books are cheap. It's often the difference between 50 cents and $15. Some prefer paper books to e readers. Lugging them around sucks but I like owning a physical book. It's all preference.

[Anonymous No.700326]

>>699831
Yeah, but if you're willing to look, youcan usually find the books you want for free... Hell, a few days ago i set out to find 35 ebooks... I found all but 4 so far, without paying a penny.

[Anonymous No.700345]

>>699565
There is a similar booksale here. Every May and October.

I usually go in the middle. I don't have the storage space I would need for the last day.

[Anonymous No.700356]

I got a copy of Brave New World at a used bookstore for $2.50 yesterday.

[Anonymous No.700373]

Got a copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night" for 3.75

[Anonymous No.700385]

>>700356
And here I was thinking used book shops rip you off.

[Anonymous No.700473]

>>700326
I'm well aware and I have plenty of ebooks myself (anyone remember lithursday on /b/?) but in the end I prefer something tangible.

[Anonymous No.700505]

Today, I bought Frankenstein, Catch-22, the Metamorphosis, the Shipping News, the Sound and the Fury, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, and Candide. Probably something else but I can't remember. All for $13.

[Anonymous No.700510]

>>700505
man, you're lucky... when i got atlas at a used bookstore it was still 8 dollars, albeit in pretty decent condition

[Anonymous No.700521]

>>700510
The place I go to has it so you can set up a credit with them when you turn in your own books. With credit, the paper backs are 1/4 the price listed on the books, and hard cover books are $2. Everything I bought was in decent condition.

[Anonymous No.700522]

>>700326
if i had a kindle or something i would do this, but since i don't i'd rather read a physical copy than on my laptop or something for the sake of my eyes

[Anonymous No.700530]

I live in Brooklyn. Stoop sales happen all the time in the summer. Great deals on great books (including, in some cases, galleys -- because a lot of folks work in publishing). Other times people just leave boxes of books out. Picked up a mint hardcover copy of Philip Roth's A Plot Against America just an hour ago.

Kind of paranoid about bedbugs... but it's hard to pass up a good free book.

[Adventure Puppy !id5v238waU No.700599]

[Anonymous No.700602]

Hellbound Hearts for a $1 and At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories for $6

Good day indeed.

[Adventure Puppy !id5v238waU No.700612]

>>700599