/lit/ - Literature

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>>6829437
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>>6829439
4?

This is what I have with me.
>Why don't you have MemeWorkX?
Cause its probably on my other bookshelves across the country.

All neat respectable publishers, seems like you treat your books right no wear on the books at all, good mix of older and newer classics without being too "obvious" about it (i.e. bunch of Penguin Classics), doesn't resort to used books so not a poorfag, good thing poetry isn't ignored, and a few nyrbs to spice it up

8/10 would consider sleeping with you after bringing me to your place and showing me your shelf after a date

All good stuff OP, first set is best in my opinion
R8 my shelf
1/2

2/2

>>6829437
get a thicker quixote

otherwise nice

>>6829442
It's fine. Go read a book.

Does everyone hide their old entry level books or something? I can't lie and say I don't have the star wars EU books, the stack of palahnuik, the TV show tie ins, the zombie survival guide, or the copy of I am legend with will Smith on the cover. I'm not going to pretend I started reading with gombrowicz and everyone that doesn't have a section of their pleb books is a liar.

>>6829530
I have a shit ton of goosebumps, I just don't read them anymore so I took them off my shelf

>>6829530
after moving however many times in the past five years I got rid of everything I didn't need or want. I got rid of all that shit when I realized I'd never read it again personally

>>6829530
I used the library a lot when I was younger and didn't buy a lot of books. Also I left a lot of books I read when I was younger on my shelves at my parents' house.

>>6829439
What do you think of Soseki and Tanizaki so far?

>>6829456
T-thanks anon.

>>6829530
Like most anons, I think those books are either kept at your parents house along with all the other old toys and items, or got rid of as we move on in life.

>>6829547
I liked Kokoro a lot. I understand it's one of the most popular classics in Japan, and it's a really good display of the understated melancholy and resignation that seems to pervade Japanese literature for the next few decades.

Tanizaki I was less enamored with. I understand he was quite groundbreaking some of the themes and plots he chose to tackle (sexually transgression with depictions of affairs and homosexuality (lesbianism), as well as being one of the first to really grapple with the idea of East-West cultural conflict/subsumption that would dominate Japanese literature until well after WWII); however, his writing felt stilted and off to me. Perhaps the fault of a translator? I only read book pictured, which contains The Key and Diary of a Mad Old Man, two of his last works, where he was apparently getting a bit experimental. I hear The Makioka Sisters is very influential in Japan.

>>6829530
Here's a ~5 year old picture of a portion of my books at my parents' place when I was rearranging some stuff. Can't really see a lot of the titles but you can see Le Hunger Games.

Here's my nerdiest shit

>>6829606
You should get the Twisted Spoon Press editions too. They're hardcovers.

>>6829607
There are a lot of cool looking hardcovers. I'll check those out. The reason I have doubles is that I originally had the Muir translations and wanted the newer ones. It's interesting to compare them.

>>6829462
Some good stuff, but needs more prose. Too heavy a focus on Americana as well. Could use some diversification.

>>6829606
Here's some more /2

>>6829606
I've not read the Tunnel if you're wondering.

>>6829583
Yeah, that choice of Tanizaki for your first two would give you a strange impression of him. It'd be like starting with The Lake instead of Snow Country for Kawabata.

If you liked Kokoro, I'm certain you'd like The Makioka Sisters too, and that would give you a better sense of why he's a major writer in Japan. Are you planning to get more Soseki?

>>6829627
>>6829631
You have so many of my favorites on your shelves. Pedro Paramo, Street of Crocodiles, Abe, Calvino, all the NYRB Classics.

Have you actually read Migrations? What made you want to get it? You're the only other person I've seen who has had it on their shelves.

>>6829654
I read most of it but ended up buying too many books at one time and was bouncing around too much so I want to start it over, which I plan on doing soon. I became interested in Yugoslavia's literature through Selimovic's Death and the Dervish, and I saw that Heim translated it Migrations. It was pretty impulsive but there's some wonderfully flowery prose in it.

>>6829530
I just wasn't reading when my peers were reading shit books. I'm glad I wasn't reading at all.

>>6829654

Bruno Schulz is probably my favorite prose stylist that I've read in the past couple years. There'd be times when I'd get so enamored with the sentences that I'd lose complete track of what was happening and have to start reading the pages over again and again, but I never minded a second of it. I was happy to make that book last as long as possible, and I hope to return to it soon.

You should definitely check out Anna Kavan's Ice, I'm basing this suggestion on the books you've listed, if you haven't, checked it out, I mean.

>>6829436
>>6829437
>>6829439
>>6829442
good taste in purchasing books
bad practice in actually reading

>>6829689
I read most of Ice several years back, but for some reason didn't finish, despite how short I know it is. I loved what I read--and Anna Kavan generally.

Do you have a Goodreads you'd be willing to share?

>>6829694
I had to stop using Goodreads because it made me too obsessive about Collecting books and Tailoring what I'd read. I also would think too constantly about Ratings while reading books, which seemed superficial and ridiculous but I couldn't control it.

>>6829691
I've read 80% of the books pictured.

>>6829639
I Am A Cat for sure at some point, hopefully before the end of the year.

>>6829694
Also, check out svetislav basara's the cyclist conspiracy, it might be up your alley. Esp. if you like Hegel at all

>>6829714
same-tbh-but-actually-same-tbh-not-memetically

>>6829767
I think it's way too easy, at least for me, for literature to turn into just another psychosis of Collection and Ownership. Like that if I have the right books on my shelf I become intrinsically more intelligent. I know it's hard for people to admit, but it's clear that that's a major factor of people's interest in literature and philosophy, which also I think is a reason why people are so uncomfortable with the transition to electronic books. But I've been weening myself off of that mindset and just delving into the books I've already accumulated, which is enough of a collection for a lifetime of reading and rereading. I'm still interested in finding new books but I'm trying to quell that urge to just research books for the sake of Collection.

Shit, I'm not in my city right now, but my shelf is like 5 times bigger and bourgeois than what I can see here.
You will love it when I post it, faggots

>>6829880
What kind of authors are on it? Any notable sub-collections?

>>6829583
>guns, germs and steel
based

>>6829884
That's a very difficult question, because it is a shelf feeded with four generations of voracious readers (my father, mother, four grandparents and some great grandparents) and let's say that I never had to buy any classic or contemporary gem written before the 90's. And, of course, I have some incunables too,
Anyway, not a single fantasy/epic shit.

>>6829884
Oh, and lot of juicy sub-collections: history (Rome, WW2 and the Spanish civil war over all), all the russians you can imagine and a lot of scientific themes just to name a few.
It is very complicated to sintetize all that shit.

>>6829958
>>6829976
What do you have against epics?

Were your parents professors? I've always wondered how it would to be in a family that wasn't functionally illiterate. Growing up with books in the house and parents who could give you recommendations. Having someone always there to talk about books with. People who'd know what books you like and could gift you accordingly.

>>6829985
Not professors (only my grandfather, who held two chairs btw) but doctors and intellectual bussinesmen. I have allways consider myself to be very fortunate because of the intellectual calibre of my family. I suppose the main difference is that some people have to go to the store and buy "The trial" and I just had to say "dad, dou you have "the trial"?"

Also, I find epics very boring, but I will be glad if you want to reccomend me a good one.

They called me beta, but little did they know I simply memorize everything I ever read
>get on my level
>who's beta now bitches

Since our school system sucks I have to catch up on all the obvious reads. if anyone has recommendations pls post.

>>6830057

>>6830057
>Since our school system
>school system

Yeah, we can see that.
Just start with the Greek crisis.

>>6830069

>>6830069
Why do you have two copies of Les Miserables

>>6830077

>>6830083
They split the story in 2 for some reason.

>>6830040
Yeah, most of my family never even graduated from high school. My grandpa was a lumberjack. The range of background on places like 4chan is always interesting.

It's less the fact that you had it immediately available (I mean, most poor people still do have libraries), but the fact that you had someone there to talk to about it. If you read Kafka and wanted more authors like him, well, there's your dad. If you just wanted to talk literary history and influence, you've got people there for you from a young age.

Huh, I wouldn't think it's a genre that could be found boring. The Odyssey, the Iliad and the Aeneid?

But if you find those boring, definitely get The Tain. It's the most exciting one I've read--very violent.

>>6830096
Well, I allways had a lot of cultural life in my house but I also didn't graduate from high school because of my academic hate and being unable to accept teachers authority, I just found them boring and stupid compared to my grandpa, for example. But my awfull grades never stopped me from reading and writing compulsively, which is what I do now, constantly.

Oh, and I was talking about modern fantasy/epic like Pratchet and that sort of books with terrible covers. I wil check "The Tain", thank you.

Also, I think that having a lumberjack grandpa is very cool!

>>6829530

I have no reason to hide anything like or have liked in the past, so no.

>>6826698
I'd love to have a room like this, there's something quite soothing about being surrounded by that many works of literature. All those hours and emotions put into it all.

>>6829436
Norton copies are good shit tbh, nice selection overall

>>6829442
>genre memection
into the trash it goes

>>6830088
kek all that genre fiction shit and than Ulysses. Well meme'd my friend.

Just got a shelf today

>>6830689
> only owning half of the Series of Unfortunate Events books

Step it up nigga

>>6830815
Just finished unpacking a ton of my things and am looking for them right now. Rattled I also can't find my Latin and French TinTins

Any recommendations?
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>>6830858
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>>6830865
fucking captcha

>>6830869
3

>>6830689
>>6830858
ayy loeb classics

>>6830922
>bookshelf thread
>posts collage of images

ok m80

>>6830929
>implying i have a bookshelf in my apt

>>6830929
>not knowing dolan, stemfag patron of /lit/

>>6830933
if you don't, then this is clearly not the thread for you

>>6829530
I have no idea what to do with my stack of Palahniuk tbh. They're just taking up ton of shelf space right now

>>6830933
Where do you store your books then? Also, seeing as I didn't go ahead and study Physics at university, could you recommend any textbooks to understand quantum physics?

>>6830934
kek, I've seen this image in every bookshelf/collection thread that pops up

>>6830949
in my closet and on my floor depending on what im using/need.

>>6830966
also

>>6830944
It'd be best to Chuck them tbh

>>6829530
>I can't lie and say I don't have the star wars EU books
I've slowly given away most of the shitty stuff I read as a kid, I can't bring myself to get rid of my star wars books though.
They're at my parents house with a ton of my other books. I think at one point I did give any after the New Jedi Order shit where I stopped reading them to Goodwill, along with a ton of other crappy paperbacks.

>>6831005
I still have death troopers
>only book to have thoroughly spooked me

>>6830966
>>6830986
Fair enough, I had to do that at university with my excess of textbooks. Thanks for the recs, I'll be sure to check them out at some point.

Also, what's the significance of yesterdays news from CERN regarding the discovery of a pentaquark?

>>6831028
not really sure, i'm engineering not physics, but i'd say the implication of different aggregations of quarks that we'd believed to be possible but never confirmed experimentally is a big thing. just insight into how matter like protons/neutrons form and the possibility of strange forms of matter

>>6831024
>death troopers
After my time. I stopped reading them around the time the first of the prequels came out, when they changed publishers and the quality, which was never that great, noticeably declined.
When the new film was announced and they declared that the past EU was non canon, I looked into how much had been published in the last fifteen or so years and decided I would be fine pretending the "new republic era" was the extent of it.
Still, part of me wants to go back and start where I left off, and I have to tell myself that it's better left to my memories and my dreams.

>>6829436
Unread/8
Nicely curated collection of unopened poetry books.

1/1

>>6831130
2/2

>>6831134
3/3

>>6831140
4/4

>>6831143
5/5

>>6831146
do you not understand what the number after the slash represents you fucking plen

lit
>can afford books
>can't afford a decent camera

>>6831146
6/6

That's everything. Let me know if you want a close up on a shelf.

>>6831157
Closeups of every shelf on pic 4 pls

>>6831151
Look at my books, you think I give a fuck about such things? Come on son.

>>6831151
who fucking cares,

>>6831143
where'd u get the slipcases, friendo?

>>6831167
1/8

>>6831167
2/8

>>6829437
How's Nazi Literature in the Americas?

>>6831167
3/8

>>6831167
4/8

>>6831184
Liked it. Very reminiscent of Borges. The "joke" got a bit old but it's a good precursor to the style of Savage Detectives.

>>6831179
Niiiice

>>6831080
Honestly I can probably recite more lines from the books pictured than most people on this board have even read. (Except the Byron I still need to work through Byron more thoroughly.)

No I didn't read everything from those books I only bought them after I had a pretty good grounding in those poets already but they've definitely been opened and read multiple times.

>>6831179
Who's the publisher on these/are these real fullbound leather?

>>6831170
>>6831171
who cares that you don't care

>>6831231
not that guy, but they're easton press

I don't own a book shelf

>>6831247
>books thrown in a pile in the wardrobe
>entire fucking jar of bodybuilding drugs
the roid rage is real

>>6831298
You are so ignorant it hurts to read your post.

>>6831332
take it easy, i was just memeing you

>>6831298
> bodybuilding drugs

and about the wardrobe, I'm just poor as fuck

>>6830998
Underrated post. Made me kek

>>6829442
7/10
Interesting range, you definitely have your own taste, but it's a little too contemporary and too monolingual to be fully impressive.

>>6829462
6/10
American poetry but no Wallace Stevens is disappointing, but the more time I spend on this board, the lower my standards get. You're not reading anything bad, it just seems a bit shallow.

>>6829631
8/10
You're actually an interesting, intelligent person with well-developed personal taste. You could benefit from reading more old stuff, more nonfic, maybe even some good genre stuff, just to give your shelves more character.

What do you think of Kleist?

>>6831838
Funny, contemporary is probably the last word I'd've used to describe my tastes. I also prefer European authors to American ones, and as a result I'm also a bit surprised by the monolingual assessment. I've always only semi-facetiously described my tastes as epitomizing the Dead White European Male corner. Unless you mean it's all in English, in which case it's unfortunate that I only know English (and Chinese but who the fuck cares about Chinese for /lit/ kek).

I think it's because the core canon works that I've already read are not pictured, since, as mentioned, they're on a shelf across the country.

>>6830689
>tintin
literally my friend

>>6831153
>implying spending a few bucks every so oft is more expensive than anywhere between $100-???? upfront payment

>>6832158
<3

>>6829530
Mine are all in a box at my parent's place.

>>6830858
*tipa fedora*

What I have in my shoebox apartment.

>>6832646
How are those library of america editions? I want to get a few of them.

>>6832788
The paper is thin and of a high quality. There are no margin notes, they are included at the back of the volume, along with a chronology of the author and an index if appropriate. They are also kind of expensive. I got mine used at a large discount, but if you have never seen one then I would go to a bookstore before ordering.

>>6832877
it's bible thin
i hate it

>>6832877
Thanks, I'll have to look around for some to check them out. They sound like they're high quality.

>>6831134
>Marx and Castro

ISHYGDDT

>>6830657
>genre fiction

All that fedora tipping will give you carpal tunnel.

don't see much book collecting in these threads (muh materialism), so here's one of my dad's cupboards of pelican books.

Doesn't look like that many, but as you'll see they're stacked three deep. There's another 3 cupboards and a couple of runs of double stacked shelving in a similar vein.

Where there are multiple copies of one title it's because the others have different covers or are a notably different edition/printing in some way.

>>6833972
deeper

>>6833975
and again

>>6833972
>>6833975
>>6833976
>being this materialistic

I kid, my mother has a smaller collection of pelican books. It's a shame that quite alot of the binding goes on the books, meaning they're almost unreadable. Is there any way to repair them, or are they pretty much a lost cause - kept only for aesthetic value?

1/9
books ive printed out:
- yoga of power
- beyond the pleasure principle
- metaphysics of aristotle
- metaphysics of sex
- ride the tiger
- doctrine of awakening
- the orthodox church: introduction to its history, doctrine and spiritual culture
- the will to power
- the ladder of divine ascent
- crisis of the modern world
- introduction to the study of hindu doctrines

>>6830657
it's a wordsworth classic copy too
meme overload

2/9

3/9

>>6834088
you okay, no caps guy?

nice stuff so far

hey putos check out my libros

>>6834234
internet is running painfully slowly. not worth uploading the rest

Rate this bookshelf. I have hundreds of other books by the way

1 of 2

>>6835674
not interesting as fuck

2 of 2

>>6835688
Basic.

>>6835688
Interesting as fuck

>>6835712
not for sure brother

Bonus pic and yes I am a law student

>>6835674
>>6835688
I don't see very much out of the ordinary, so I'm not much into it. But I can't see every title either, so.

Have you read the book to Satantango? What's with all the Daphne du Maurier?

>>6835735
got them all for a good price, and I was not aware that there was a book of Satantango, so no

>>6835751
That's always nice to come across.

You should check it out. A lot of Bela Tarr's are based on Lazslo Krasznahorkai's books.

>>6835751
Interesting as fuck

>>6833834

Of course. Problem?

>>6833972
The books don't seem particularly high quality/collection worthy? It's not an Easton/Franklin/Folio/etc. or something...

>>6836075
A lot of people grew up with Pelicans and so they have nostalgia value. Like the orange Penguin classics.

>>6835688
sweet guitar bro

>>6835674
>>6835688
everythingunread/10