/lit/ - Literature

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3/5

these are always so embarassing

There are already three of this exact same thread sitting in the wings. You didn't even go check.

I know it looks small but there's actually a lot more there than it seems.

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5/5

>>462442
How many libraries do you hold?

One, at best two decent books in a sea of crap and bullshit. Nothing to be proud of. Grow up, and leave your teenage years behind at once.

>>462451

All of them.

>>462443

>3+ shelves of Stephen King

OP why do you only have the first half of Book of the New Sun?

The same bookshelf, over and over and over and over.

You have a lot of shit. I mean that in a bad way.

buy and read the books because you want them for their content, not for showing them to others to prove you are indeed literate and show off your taste.

Peoples bookshelves can say something about their owners, just like the furnishing of an apartment does. But do you guys have so little human interaction in real life that you need to post that shit online?

>>462438

>Sword of Truth past book 2 or maybe 3

>>462462
theres like half a dozen different websites for people to catalog their libraries

>>462462

I just like to see others' collections, thought I would post mine. Sorry I didn't realize there was already a collection thread

>>462456
Exactly what I was thinking. On my shelf, the second half and Urth are right next to that volume, and those are between the Long Sun and Soldier books.

>>462466
all I see are dvds and rpg books

>>462466

>>462470

Oh shit you are right. Uploaded the wrong one

>>462474

OP is the kind of child, (cretin was my first choice of words, but anyway) who reads Carl Sagan and believes all there is to know about science. He has many books of the fucker, so it's clear that he doesn't realize that he has read the exact same crap ten times.

>>462480
thats even worse than the first one. Just stop posting.

>>462480
>facepalm.jpg

>>462475

Nice collection. How is "The Iron Council" by China Mieville?

>>462484
>>462485
He's Irish in real life so cut him some slack

>>462486
Not read it yet. Still reading Perdido Street Station

ok OP, I looked at your bookshelf.

Here is how I judge you from that insight in your personal life:
Male, between 18-25, likes to watch movies and to play videogames, but not only the stupid ones, you live in an urban area, but not downtown. You have a carpet floor. The most expensive thing in your place is your computer.
If you are studying at college/university its not a language, history or philosophy. Probably some natural science or IT stuff.

>>462439
To who?

>>462462
I know I post in these threads to encourage other to do so. Bookshelf threads, when not overrun with trolls, are the closest thing to recommendation threads /lit/ has, and therefor the best threads on /lit/.

>>462493
I could have said that without looking at the pics.

Lame-o!

>>462500
You mean apart from the verious recommendation threads that show up daily?

Let's face it, without threads like this, /lit/ would be painfully slow.

Bill Maher and Hemingway on the same shelf
Gary Busey is dissapoint.

>>462503
Are there broad recommendation threads?
The one's I normally see are, "I like this kind of shit so tell me more stuff exactly like that because all your other shit sucks, go fuck yourself."

>>462503
No he means apart from the various threads where people actually clunk together and read past page 7 to make a real comment on an author or title dialogue thread that, if interesting, can also work as a recommendation. Usually the most insightful kind.

>>462500

To the people posting their libraries. Though I will admit that despite the amount of crap on those shelves, you still have some semblance of taste when compared to the trash we normally see in these threads.

>>462510
those annoy me as well, but while they are overly restrictive and affirmative, these here are just completely without context.
But I leave you guys alone with your shit now, just keep the noise down, allright. At least you are not trolling.

Posting for no reason.
Ignore my comics/manga/whatever if they offend.

>>462543
Nice, how are the Gabriel King books? I love M. John Harrison, but I'm not sure I love him enough to read cat books.

ITT: People with more movies/games on their BOOKshelves than actual BOOKS.

>>462548
The first one was alright, nothing to write home about but it entertained me enough while reading it. I have read the second one yet. It came in the mail recently and I have some other things to catch up on before I start into it.

>>462543

you could just crop it

good job OP. i'm stealing this idea for the future. too lazy to take a photo of mine. we have a lot of books in common actually.

too lazy to weed out the bad books from the good books and then take a photo and then upload it and then upload it to /b/.

will do another day.

books we have in common:

confederacy of dunces, amazing adventures of kavalier and clay (haven't read yet), brief wondrous life of oscar wao (illegally downloaded audiobook, haven't finished), all the stephen king shit, catch-22 (sitting on shelf--haven't read).

Plan to read for future (books we have in common): stephen hawking's stuff, 100 years of solitude.

OP, oh yeah noticed you have a handful of pulitzer prize winning books. i like buying those too

>>462943

>>462449
How was 'the corrections', i bought it on a spree and i'm considering reading it.

>>463059

Terrible, to be honest. Would not recommend

1/4.

The majority of these belonged to my Dad, which is why I still have them.

>>463312

2/4

More books that belonged to my parents. My mother used to work for DCFS, which is why there are a bunch of books on child development.

>>463315

3/4

Encylcopedia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World" Series. Got these from my Aunt. I have the full collection; the rest of them are on the shelf underneath. Some of them are good, some of them are shit.

>>463312

3/4

Encylcopedia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World" Series. Got these from my Aunt. I have the full collection; the rest of them are on the shelf underneath. Some of them are good, some of them are shit.

>>463312

4/4

Random books that've been given to me as gifts over the years.

Nobody sees my books so not >>462462 but I'm wondering what /lit/erates would say.

>>463487
the first pic that I actually appreciate in this thread.

>>462462

Bookshelf threads are a type of recommendation thread.

By looking at other people's shelves I personally get intrigued by a title or remember it from somewhere and that can lead to me buying/borrowing it later.

It's like how I ask for pictures of my friends DVD collections so I can remember what movies to download.

OP, you pretty cool guy

Posting mine, even though I always catch hell for it.

Hey OP, which publisher do you think has the best spines? I'd have to go with vintage. Your shelf reminded me how awesome it is to be able to have Nabakov, Faulkner, Joyce, McCarthy, and Camus with the same sexy spine design and with the same sexy texture on the covers. Vintage makes awesome trades.

>>463660
why doll brush?

>>463686

It goes to one of my dolls. As to why it's in there? Not sure. My little cousin might have put it there. She's always leaving stuff everywhere when she comes over.

>>463696
you play dolls?

>>463713

Not anymore. I still have a bunch from when I was little. I still live at home, just recently turned 18 and not even through with high school.

I keep taking new photos for these threads as an excuse to fiddle with our point and shoot camera.

>>463720
I'm imagining you as a cute, nerdy girl who enjoys reading books.

You probably have a penis, and those dolls are probably anime figurines. But a man can dream.

>>463833

>Finnegans Wake

o rly?

>>463890
ooooooooooooooooooooo
rocks.

>>463881

Ya rly.

It was $3 and its a decent insomnia cure

>>463890
Natgeo bro detected

>>464384

how are everyone's bookshelves so damn neat? I've got books shoved fucking everywhere.

>>463833
I see no Don Quixote >:(

But other than that, I must say I approve.

Here's one.

>>464446

More.

>>464488

Smaller one.

>>464496

Last one, as you can see I really don't have any more room.

>>464501
>>464496
>>464488
>>464446

most of these books look unread ... you must buy way faster than you read ...

what is really amusing about these (let's say it, rather vain) bookshelves threads, is that I always see lots of cracked spines on horror/sci fi books, but the Penguin classics with their fine black covers are almost invariably untouched ...

>>464446
>>464488
>>464496
>>464501
>buying books to put on a bookshelf and then never reading them
dohohoho

>>464384
oh my god, I feel sick

One day I hope to own enough books to be able to post in a /lit/ bookshelf thread ;_;

>>464384
why would you have so many editions of Rand? Do you have some sort of compulsion like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory?

>>464786
I'm betting that's a bookshelf from a small bookstore that sells those books. No one would be dumb enough to own all of those.

>>464789
You realize you're on 4chan, right? There's ALWAYS someone dumb enough.

>>464735

Some are unread, but most aren't. I am careful about not snapping the spine when I read; I used to work in a rare books office (not that any of mine are rare, just habit). What's the point of buying them just to put them on a shelf?

>>464408

Arranging bookshelves is fun. Like today, I organised all my Mum's J.D. Robb books by publication order just because I needed a break from studying. I shit you not.

>>464435

Funnily enough I was going to buy the Penguin Classics version of Don Quixote the other day but I jewed out. I had bought 10 books in 2 weeks though...

>>464754

I think a quarter of that is the page counts being on average maybe a bit higher in a lot of Fantasy/Sci-Fi putting stress on the fine + shittier covers in general. Though of course there's an element of what you said.

>>465036
> Jewed out as pejorative term

>>465036
>Though of course there's an element of what you said.

indeed. There are books you like and read and love, and then there are the books you buy because you feel you should like them. But these tend to go unread ...

Pretty good selection OP. I like quite a bit of it.

Dig Stephen King myself, just not that goddamn much.

To each their own.

I'm currently buying Tolkien's works as I read them. I fucking love Tolkien.

>>465052

Yeah I read a couple of SK books and I loved them. I also like most of the film adaptations of his books.

>>463720

show pics of yourself. It would help if you included a timestamp and no shirt.

>>465044

Heh. Casual anti-Semitism is the devil.

>>465074

>dons white armour

Leave her alooone.

>>462442

I never tried an ebook reader but I don't think this will ever replace real books. Seriously, you can't get that new book smell or the simple pleasure of reading out of real paper with those things.

>>465087

+ plus the batteries thing.

There's disadvantages and advantages. Ebooks are ridiculously handy for tracking down quotes for essays though.

>>465099

yeah, but I heard the kindle's battery lasts for like 10 hours so I don't think it's much of a problem. It's a cool gadget but it will never fully replace books.

>>465087
This. I hope the print medium never dies. I realize the allure of e-readers because of the amount of books they can hold, ease of use, etc. But I'd rather lay in bed, sit on the couch, or on my porch with a real fucking book.

>>465111

yeah, somehow you can't emulate the feeling of reading a real book.

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Devils, Notes from Underground, The Gambler and other short works, all by Dostoevsky; then War and Peace, by Tolstoy.

>>465120

also the lifespan of a book is greater than an ebook reader.