/lit/ - Literature

1.5 hour commute and 8am classes 3 days a week.

It's worth it. I get out at 1, come home, and work a bit. I function well in the mornings.

>>3365380
I bought a copy of Portraid of the Artist from the local bookstore. Highlights until the middle, and the cover is drawn on.

Nothing yet, I got $282 in cash and a $25 gift card, so i'm gonna do some shopping now. What should I get with the $25, if i were to spend all of it on books?

>>3239515
The first three I agree with
Characters: Iago, Dogberry, and Hamlet

A local bookstore has a series of 3 or 4 Faulkners, have that same picture thing the OP has with Musil. They're $2 each, I've been putting off getting them for a bit but I'm gonna go for it today

Finnegan's Wake

>>3153618
I've got the first four ASOIAF books, just haven't gotten around to them yet. I wanted to get The Hobbit as well, but the store had three copies of every other Tolkien that I already own and none of that.

>>3153740
Marvelous. I read the Chomsky-Foucault book last year for a paper on the former, thoroughly enjoyed it.

>>3153851
>Implying I would ever go to /cgl/

>>3152366
Norton Critical Editions are usually pretty pricey. I love them, though, I actually almost bought a copy of Heart of Darkness from my school because I loved the stuff in the back of the Norton edition

>>3152305
>>3152312
And you as well; Eh, I was on the fence until there was literally nothing else but what was in the picture, so I figured might as well.

>>3152293
Hey now, it's not so bad. I prefer physical books to ebooks, and the library always makes me think I'll be late.

On another note, I just kind of found this in the hallways on the way to my college's library. It doesn't have a name, and it's definitely not a library book, so I just kinda..took it.

>>3152276
How about some more, eh?

Really excited, I got V. and Ulysses within a day of each other after ordering them online, and Cuckoo's Nest came yesterday.

>>3152275
Oops. Here's the actual picture.

>>3152266
And some more as well.

These I got from the library, they've got a few shelves of 50 cent books. I also got a copy of Sense and Sensibility for the lady, she'd been wanting it for a while.

Recent purchases thread?

Just bought these guys today, found out that my town has a bookstore five minutes from the library that I didn't know about. That poor, defiled Portrait, the inside is alright though.

The mother in The Monkey's Paw.

Dad and son rolling in dough, women, etc.

It entirely depends. My father got a BA in Philosophy and used that to earn his way into free grad school, because of his knowledge of politics. As long as you can find something to focus in, just work at it and make yourself known.

>>3136408
>Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

This and Dorian Gray are fantastic reads, I highly suggest them.

>>3134392
Just 2, one for my town library, and one for my university library. I went to the town one for the first time in a year today to pick up Anna Karenina{/spoiler]

>>3123419
Anyone?

Just came into a copy of "Cane" by Jean Toomer. No picture, though. Recent purchases thread?
Along with that, I got V. and Ulysses in the mail earlier this week, it's been a good one

1. 18
2. Massachusetts
3. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Dubliners by James Joyce

Holden as a character is someone I wholly despise, and I know he's SUPPOSED to be whiny, but that's why I don't like him. In a book like Catcher, where the whole book is literally Holden's thoughts, it's impossible to not like Holden and like the book, at least from my perspective

>>3113396
Thanks. I'm really seeing that now, if I was actually writing it I'd have thought out more.

>>3113388
As 75 rolls around, he notices a strange figure walking near him, towards the crowd. He sees it is a man, with a tall and slender figure, wearing a cloak with a strange lump around the stomach. The cloaked figure drifts into the crowd, and the man realizes with growing dread that another Revolution may begin. The people are too excited at the number 20 to care that a chase is occurring around them, as the man tracks down the cloaked man. As the crowd strikes 10, the cloaked man climbs the central pavilion. The other man can’t reach the stage, and there are no stairs up. Thinking of nothing else, the man runs away from the pavilion, and as the crowd strikes 5, someone screams that the cloaked man is on the stage. People stop counting, but the ball continues to slowly dip. The man runs as far as he can, but doesn’t escape the crowd by the final number. The ball drops, and the cloaked man sets off what can only be assumed to be a bomb.