Try awesomebooks!

I don't use it that often but it's a good site, sometimes you will have to wait for the right discount for a price to drop but it's worth it.

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Many works of literature are absolutely not there to do something as paltry as "to entertain". You having "fun" reading The Color Purple or The Bluest Eye?

Before Lovecraft, there were Algernon Blackwood and Robert Chambers, of King in Yellow fame.

My house is in Europe.

It's far more demanding that anything Stephen King ever wrote. Cormac McCarthy doesn't feel the urge to be entertaining other writers do. However it is a rewarding book. Just not in the way you imagine at this point.

I'm in Sweden.

>You are not european yourself to think you do not need to specify country of it EU?)

Sorry, I directed my question at Americans :)

Thank you for opening my eyes to Bookfinder. I see Amazon (De) has a pretty good collection and that should mean no import taxes as well.

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>... if the place the seller ships is outside the EU it is liable for customs, though some sellers seem to take care of it.

Do you know of any specific firms like this?

Generally, people will be at least familiar. I’ve read it a few times and my perspective has changed on it. I think of it as a pulp novel at this point eminently readable though.

> from x year it was edited

From 2023 it was edited. The new versions haven't been published yet.

But the old versions will still be available: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/roald-dahl-classic-text-release-cec/index.html

This is from one day ago.

https://reddit.com/r/books/comments/11aqarf/roald_dahl_publisher_to_rerelease_authors/

I am convinced that anyone out there - TikTok and everywhere else - who is recommending it is playing an elaborate prank. Surely no one read this and thought it was…good?

When I got to the letter I clapped the book covers together and just said NOPE. It wasn’t clever, it wasn’t well written, it was STUPID.

Yes to short stories. Also, read articles. They’re short and written for adults, so they keep my interest better than books for children or young adults.

McCarthy is an excellent writer. I couldn’t put it down and when I did my teenage son grabbed it and read it. That should tell you something.

Apparently! Neither Asimov nor Austen can measure up to OP. OP needs to put their $ where their mouth is and identify the books they wrote. I highly doubt they compare to Austen or Asimov. Smdh

I loved The Stand and hated The Road. The Road is extremely depressing.

I found it terrible in a charming way, if that makes sense.

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You write so much, but you say almost nothing. Many great writers produced timeless works at 21, and especially given that 21 was different 200 years ago versus today's 21.

And yes, there are hypothetical great novels that never made it to a publisher. Confederacy of Dunces was only published after the deceased author's mom pressed the manuscript on a reviewer.

Interesting review. Thank you. If you like excellent books with outsider perspective and brutal content you might like the Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

>Does anyone know of a seller with better shipping options?

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out of curiosity -

what would it cost you to have them sent to your house

and you post it to Europe?

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is this an option?

Well the way to protect books from termites in your case is to protect your home from termites.

Visible termites inside your home is never a good sign. It is generally accepted that at the first indication of termites, you should immediately contract a reputable pest control company to come and handle that shit before it destroys the building - let alone your books!

And if it's not your home and your landlord won't do what's necessary here? Move. Move, before the place comes crashing down on your head in a cloud of sawdust and half-eaten beams.

Termites should never be a problem, and if they are, they're a much bigger problem than just your books.

And yet Jane Austen is well known, and I doubt we've ever heard of any of your work. To say nothing about being a woman back then and having opinions about the economics of marriage

As someone who just read the foundation series for the first time, I think you’ve missed the point of the books. Others here correctly point out it isn’t character-driven narrative, it’s exploring major philosophical and social questions. How reliant should we be on technology, for example. How do societies undermine and eventually destroy themselves? It focuses on the social body writ large, not a particular hero. It’s a wonderfully creative, exuberant, intellectually curious imagining of future society, the inevitable decay of everything we build, and what it means to be human (ex: should we merge with gaia?).

I’d also add that you’re not giving the series enough credit for how innovative it was when it was published. It shaped the entire genre of science fiction, including some of the most famous, beloved sci fi series like dune. At the risk of being intellectually lazy, I’ll say that if all these great, thoughtful writers found something wonderful in Asimov but you didn’t, it’s more likely you’re missing something, not them.

OP, given that you dragged Asimov and Austen in prior comments, I’m curious who you consider to be a “good” writer.

Pointfr lol

Yeah, you don’t usually find a termite nest as the nest is usually in the ground and the only thing you see are mud tubes or the damages caused by them eating the wood in your home. If you see them eating your books then they are around.

Normally a pest control company would set traps or treat the ground so that the termites take poison back to their colony and kill the Queen.