What's wrong with someone going out of their way to get Mein Kampf? Reading something doesn't mean you agree with it, and if someone is interested in that period of history, then the book is a good primary source for what the Nazis were thinking.
noncedo-culli
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If I'm "on" a chapter then that means I'm currently reading it. If I just finished one but haven't started the next, I'll just say that I just finished Chapter 4
Because it doesn't carry the same connotation. Forms of address and honorifics are often very culturally specific, and so even if there's an equivalent, it's not exactly the same.
Yes, and every time I've disliked it.
I like getting copies of the same book in different languages
I agree. Mr. Mecedes was good, but I've read Pet Sematary, The Stand, The Green Mile, and a couple others that I can't remember, and they were all just kind of meh. The plots are interesting, but the prose is pretty shitty.
This might just be anecdotal, but I've noticed that, in general, books printed in France tend to have better binding and be more durable than books printed in the US.
My favorite physical book is a a 1855 copy of Ben Franklin's autobiography and collected essays. There's a note written in the front that it was awarded to a James Wilson in 1856 for having punctual attendance at his Bible class lol
Maybe also In Search of Lost Time by Proust? I haven't read it but it seems to fit your description
The Immoralist by André Gide
The Last Tycoon. It's an interesting plot, but somehow the book made it so boring, and the prose just felt dry.
Voltaire, Shakespeare, and Ada Palmer
Harry Potter, because I don't date children. Also Rousseau's Confessions because only an absolute weirdo would rate that five stars.