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Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:05:15 2010 No.909214 [Reply] [Original]

Last purchase thread!

Pic related, I was curious to know how are his non-fiction books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:08:15 2010 No.909233 File: 44 KB, 308x475, vasari.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:08:15 2010 No.909232 File: 22 KB, 285x475, 41JD40ZPWML._SL500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Postmodernism makes me happy, and poetry makes me happy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:13:15 2010 No.909255 I'm mostly nto literature, but I just bought "On the Feedom of the Will" by Schopenhauer, and the complete letters between Nietzsche, Paul Rée and Lou von Salomé.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:17:15 2010 No.909283 >>909214 If you liked his fiction, you'll like The Myth of Sisyphus.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:41:15 2010 No.909391 File: 16 KB, 300x300, awaitreply.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] On my kindle. Have been chipping away at it for 2 days when I get a few mins. 25% finished so far. Not sure if like or no like. Will inform c/lit/s when completed.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:48:15 2010 No.909424 File: 21 KB, 324x475, 3423026030.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] German Romantik is so nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 17:50:15 2010 No.909435 File: 82 KB, 396x599, martin_ack.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm pretty excited to see how everything ends. And I'm so happy that this series was written.

Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI Tue Jul 13 17:58:15 2010 No.909469
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Contains a new Black Company tale by Cook, a new Elric tale by Moorcock, plus original shorts by the likes of Wolfe, Erikson, Abercrombie, Lynch, Nix and more.

This anthology is going to rock when I get round to reading it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:00:15 2010 No.909483 No Exit and Three Other Plays

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:01:15 2010 No.909494 Honestly, can't remember the last book I actually bought. Libraries for the win.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:10:15 2010 No.909533 rollan Come on, 72!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:10:15 2010 No.909538 >>909533 FUUUUU reroll. Just this once

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:11:15 2010 No.909539 >>909469 kill yourself please

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:11:15 2010 No.909545 File: 30 KB, 324x500, jest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just bought this at Barnes and Noble about an hour ago. I have to finish my current book, but this is next on my reading list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:12:15 2010 No.909547 Heart of Darkness. Never got around to reading it until now. I really don't get the hype, it was kinda lame.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:13:15 2010 No.909551 >>909547 you're stupid and you should feel stupid. seriously that is a brilliant piece of writing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:16:15 2010 No.909576 >>909551 Why?

>>	Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI Tue Jul 13 18:16:15 2010 No.909577 >>909539 Sure, when you get off your pseudo-intellectual high horse (herp derp, fantasy sucks).

Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:18:15 2010 No.909592

>>909576
it is excellently written in terms of prose, and packs an enormous amount of meaning and intelligence into a startlingly low number of words. heart of darkness has resonances with almost every development of the twentieth century; it's a monstrously deep book, in a subtle way.

"The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:20:15 2010 No.909601 >>909592 >has resonanaces

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:25:15 2010 No.909647 >>909592 >seamen

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:31:15 2010 No.909681 >>909577 Not who you were replying to but: Fantasy DOES suck Grow up Go read a book that will benefit you as a person.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:33:15 2010 No.909696 >>909681 I would say that being entertained benefits me as a person. Not everyone reads for appearances, you know.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:35:15 2010 No.909714 >>909696 you probably go to community college lol

Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI Tue Jul 13 18:37:15 2010 No.909724

>>909681

It's your job to keep literature elite, huh?

I suppose you only watch foreign language art-house cinema too and listen to nothing but classical music. I'm sure you're a real fun guy to be around.

And I do read literary fiction too. But I'm not so insecure that I have to read nothing but that. I can read for pure entertainment too, no matter what snobs like you think.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:47:15 2010 No.909762 >>909749 weaboo faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:49:15 2010 No.909773 >>909681 >>909714 go to top-10 university, well-read in literary fiction, fantasy is awesome, suck a nigga dick or somethin

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:49:15 2010 No.909774 >>909762 >implying Ishiguro is not British

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:50:15 2010 No.909776 >>909773 >top-10 university >doesn't say which riiiight

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:51:15 2010 No.909781 >>909776 would it really change anything if i said which it was

Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:51:15 2010 No.909782

>>909681
That's ridiculous. If someone enjoys it, then what's the problem?

If you spend your whole life "improving yourself", guess what, it'll be a complete waste because in the end you'll be dead anyway.

This may come as shocking news to you, but reading is a valid form of entertainment.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:52:15 2010 No.909788 File: 36 KB, 420x648, valis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Haven't started it yet, though. Still have two books to go before.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:52:15 2010 No.909786 >>909773 wat, that's not me. And I did actually go to a private community college. Where the classes had 2 people in them and I was on first name terms with all the professors. I personally think it was awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:53:15 2010 No.909792 >>909781 >evasive response enjoy your associates

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:56:15 2010 No.909803 File: 42 KB, 500x500, 51N1SR062ZL._SS500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>909724 you're retarded

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:57:15 2010 No.909818 >>909803 >you're

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 18:58:15 2010 No.909822 Too lazy to get a photo, but I just bought Steppenwolfe along with some comic tpbs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 19:15:15 2010 No.909927 >>909818 Um... elaborate, please.

Anonymous Tue Jul 13 19:23:15 2010 No.909969
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I bought a big amount of books the last time I did, but this is the one from the group that I'm reading (and loving) at the moment.
Does anyone know if the rest of his works are this good or even better? Also, similar authors? I noticed he mentions Schopenhauer and Nietzsche a lot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 19:23:15 2010 No.909971 >>909927 derp

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 19:27:15 2010 No.909993 Last bookstore visit I got: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and a collection, "Modern American Poetry" by the Great Books Association.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 19:27:15 2010 No.909996 >>909993 Great Books Foundation*

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