Thread 24708690

Just got back from Oxfam books. Copped these beauties (all on my list) for the low price of ~£12; roughly the cost of a single new book at Waterstones. Post 'em

>>24708690 (OP)
£12 sent directly to Hamas, who will use the money to murder more innocent Jews.

>>24708722
So he won twice? Amazing.

>>24708722
I actually did win in that sense but I would also equally pay for the opposite. Also there was a bunch of Uni girls working in there and one was a lesbian looking middle eastern girl with I shit you not a "Grand Theft Palestine" Hoodie on.

>>24708690 (OP)
Reposting.
>melmoth
The Spaniard's tale is a filter. I love the book, but going through his narrative can be cumbersome.
The part about Immalee is my favorite.

>>24708793
What series/publication are the slim volumes?

>>24708806
Those are plays.
The Samuel French Theater Theater Bookshop and Dramatists Play Service.

>>24708690 (OP)
Oxfam always has a good selection but is also the most expensive (still far cheaper than new but still). I love charity shops, anon, although they are the reason why I have so many unread books piling up because I can't keep up.

>>24708722
Lfg

where the fuck in the country are you if you're getting good books from the charity shop
i've been everywhere and it's all slop. celebrity biographies, bernard cornwell, occasionally a few dickens once in a while but those are rare

>>24709314
there's around 5 charity shops at a local shopping centre near me and while most days there isn't anything of value there are the occasional good finds

>>24709314
Not OP but usually posh areas, although you can find gems anywhere. From time to time my economically depressed working class town churns out absolute gems. A few weeks ago I found Piers the Ploughman, Song of the Cid, Idylls of a the King, Song of Roland, all brand new and £2 each. Although before finding those it was week after week of finding nothing interesting. You just got to keep checking in reguarly. Also every town I'm in I make an effort to go around the charity shops to look for books.

>>24709583
>>24709601
The only places i've gone to where good books can be found are car boot sales
Never once found anything of worth in a charity shop but have found (and made a few thousand quid reselling) books from car boots
Maybe the charity shop workers find and keep all the good stuff while the pikeys at the car boots are too illiterate to

>>24708760
I hate university aged women.

>>24709616
I rarely find good books at carboot sales. Recently I found a gilded paged copy of the Ingoldsby Legend which is nice but there's no market for it as Ingoldsby isn't really famous outside of the county as far as I'm aware.

>>24709634
maybe it's the area you're in but i've found great stuff at car boot sales. 17th century books in good condition, victorian and 18th century works selling for pocket change.

>>24708722
>Jews
>innocent

>>24709314
I think it being both a University city and an Oxfam books is the biggest factor for finding actual literature/classics. Oxfam books are specialised stores and have everything organised into genres whereas all of the other charity shops I regularly visit only have Middle aged normalfag books. I have always found several books I wanted to buy in their stores everywhere I have been or lived, in Reading, Oxford, London, York, Leeds, they just always have good stock in the classics section.

>>24710784
>Reading
Was in Reading the over the last week and was gutted to find the Oxfam bookshop had closed down. The Canterbury one is my favourite (when it's not overrun with tourists).

:^]

>>24710789
>the Oxfam bookshop had closed down
Noooooooooooo! That's a real shame, its been a couple years since I walked the streets of Reading, usually I just go via the station or bus terminal on the rare occasion when I visit my family in my hometown. I have a lot of fond memories of that Oxfam, visited that store on and off since I was around 6 years, old my Nana would take me there to buy me books, and we would also go to the Oxfam music store and she would buy me old comics.

>>24710824
It was my first time in Reading and it wasn't very impressive, truth be told. Just foriegners and newbuilds. All the antique architecture was wasted on vape shops and foriegn food markets and takeaways. The old abbey was grand, though. And there were a lot of great boozers I came across.

>>24711056
It's become a horrible place, or maybe more truthfully its been a horrible place since at least the early 2000s. I grew up about 25 minutes away and visited for shopping, to see family that lived there, and eventually for work until I left for Uni. Not that the place I live now is not full of undesirables, and is actually worse in many senses, but I digress. The abbey ruins are indeed beautiful as are the Forbury Gardens (unfortunately the location of a terrorist attack just a few years ago) and the Maywand Lion war memorial pictured just cropped out of the photo with local band Slowdive. Just next to both the abbey and the gardens is the former prison: Reading Gaol, where Oscar Wilde famously served a sentence for 'Gross Indecency.' Reading is home to a lot of foreign shite, and left wing lunatics as documented by this YouTuber: https://youtu.be/WqSeoYMhUPc

>>24711082
Wow, didn't know how bad things were. I saw some communist party posters (that had been torn down) but I see that shit in London all the time. It is a shame that leftists are hellbent on destorying beautiful towns and cities.
Reading highstreet can only be described as a melting pot. At one end you had a muslim preacher, further up you had a Malayasian guy blowing into his pipes, further up from there you had a group of blacks rapping about Jesus and trying to invite peole to their urban church service, and further on you had two Asians preaching the Book of Mormon. You get this shit in London but it's usually spread out over a considerable distance, but in Reading all of this was occuring within 200 metres of each other.

>>24711104
>It is a shame that leftists are hellbent on destorying beautiful towns and cities.
i'm in brighton, tell me about it
the used book shops here aren't any good anyways

>>24711149
My sister lives down that way and I find myself there periodically. Yeah, can't say I've found any good books. The only memorable part about Brighton are, again, the boozers. Worthing charity shops aren't too bad, though.

Bros, I found Annihilation by Houellebecq at the used bookstore for only two dollars today. As well as Inherent Vice for one dollar. Feels good man.

>>24708690 (OP)
Nostromo is a true masterwork.

>>24708722
whenever you buy products and services from any source there is a good chance that some of your money will end up being used for causes that you don't support
at least in oxfam i can buy cheap books and stuff
anyway i like the oxfam bookshops in winchester and farnham. generally i find wealthy towns have better secondhand bookshops

>>24708722
It's okay. After buying my books from Oxfam I go buy some goyslop from McDonald's so I can rest assured my money is funding the death of Hamas, as well.

>>24708690 (OP)
Four very good books

>>24711731
Hell yeah

>>24708690 (OP)
I have that same Nostromo. I hate it, but I still have it.

Just moved across the country so I’m rebuilding my library from nothing. This is what I got this week. Top five I got today for about $2 each

>>24714494
Good stack

>>24714494
what's your cat's name ?

>>24714509
Danke
>>24714657
He’s named Isaac.

20 bucks for this. Think I'm gonna start with Poe.

>>24714494
meow

>>24715241
It's the best time of year to read Poe. Especially in the next few weeks.

>>24715273
The back had me at whaling and kept getting better.
>whaling voyage, mutiny, butchery, exquisite horror, cannibalism..., premature burial, impenetrable seaborne labyrinth, corpse-ridden ghost ship, gigantic polar bears, uncharted islands, barbarian hordes

>>24715291
It was also eerily prophetic if you hadn't heard already, you should look into it after you finish it to avoid spoilers. Basically what he wrote about happened to a group of people 40 years later with the same names.

>>24715305
holy shit...

>>24716702
wow, what a tall stack you have beautiful.

>>24716702
I should break into your place and do a tornado kick at the stack just for having the Monster volumes.

>>24717502
the monster volumes are like the least objectionably thing about that stack kek

I saw a copy of The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel in a charity shop but didn't buy it as I had no interest in it... only to look it up and find the paperback copy can go as high as £113... It was only £2 at the time. And I can't go back because I was only in the area temporarily. Fuck.

>>24708690 (OP)
Am I the only non-Anglo here?

Muh books

OP here. I walked past Oxfam books and tried not to go in, and then tried not to buy anything but I couldn't help it, got these for ~£7. All three were on my list.
>>24714494
Nice stack, what are Kafka's Diaries like?
>>24715241
Nice stack too. I stil haven't read any Poe, is that a good one to start with?
>>24718904
I think you might be. Good picks nevertheless, I accept you as one of us.
>>24720036
Learning Russian or are Russian?

>>24720565
>Learning Russian or are Russian?
am russian

>>24720573
Is Nabokov in Russian good? Or are you proficient enough in English to never have needed to read him in Russian (his English novels)

>>24720580
>Is Nabokov in Russian good?
well, he has written like a half of his body of work in russian so I've read them the way they were written in russian, and yes they are quite good, King, Queen, Knave being my favorite of his so far. His novels that were written in English I'm not that much of a fan but I do appreciate them, especially Pale Fire and Lolita. Stylistically they're also all quite different so it all depends on what you are looking for exactly.

>>24720565
>I walked past Oxfam books and tried not to go in, and then tried not to buy anything but I couldn't help it
I know that feel, it ain't half a struggle

>>24720565
>>24720655
Sometimes I wish I had an Oxfam in my town but I'd rather it remain right-wing, truth be told. Good books, though. Found picrel earlier this year in a different town.

>>24720565
Based Tristram Shandy

>>24720585
Of course I meant only his English novels, but that's interesting. I just wondered how much changes. I have read Dostoevksy and Tolstoy and now am starting with Turgenev and I feel I am undoubtedly missing out not understanding Russian. I think if I had to choose a single superpower it would be to understand on the level of a native speaker every language on earth.
>>24720655
Checked. You know it mate. I have ran out of space on my bookcase and have now encroached onto my gf's book trolley by our bed where I used to just keep my currently reading books. I need to do a cull or buy a new bookcase, probably the latter.
>>24720700
The place I live in is neither right-wing nor even particularly white; but I only came here for Uni as an undergraduate and will not stay beyond PhD. The high student population leads to a lot of well dressed white students though which keeps the area attractive and distracts from the mudslime. I will move somewhere quaint and nice with the gf when its time to have muh kids.
>>24720751
Heard so many good things for so long and finally found a cheap copy. Will be starting as soon as I finish my current book.

>>24709314
My local thrift stores will have some good nonfiction sometimes, presumably because a professor dropped off some of their excess.

Probably set for the rest of the year with these ones

>>24716702
Dats gonna fall over and kill your little kitten...

>>24708722
Thanks, I was looking for a reason to start buying physical books again.