/lit/ - Literature

>>6889301
books

>>6889308
But which books?

Lot of history, a few manga, and some forest guides

>>6889337
I think your book shelf is a bit broken

Or it was part of a panorama.

>>6889301
such a pleb weeb shelf.

also
>used books
>keeping the price stickers on your books

hell, that's hardly a bookshelf

>>6889342
It used to hold my family's shoes, it's not broken if it's still holding it !

>>6889351
Most of my books from earlier I've given away.

>>6889301
cleaning my bookshelf and decided to make a shelf inspired by you guys

>>6889301
THAT VIJIGAIMU IS TOUCHING THE BOOK. GET THOSE STICKERS OFF THE FUCKING SPINES. WHY ARE THESE THINGS ALLOWED?

>>6889372
>no mein kampf

>>6889372
>1984
I just spat my Chardinnay on the floor

>>6889372
10/10 eclectic taste

>>6889337
Coming for someone who loves book and is currently writing one, I would hate to see my book on a shelf like that.... And I'm assuming you have a fond place in your heart for them considering your in the /lit/ boards

>>6889374
But then there would just be white sticker bits that I couldn't get off

>>6889345
>not buying intro level math textbooks used

Wtf is wrong with you?

>>6889301
thats not a bookshelf- it's a collection of junk

>>6889402
>keeping the stickers on
>not selling the books
>being STEM
>being poor

Wtf is wrong with you?

One of my bookshelves.....

I'm a messy guy

>>6889440
yeah you have a fedora bookcase blah blah blah reddit troll images etc etc BUT mancala is a fucking great game and seeing it in your pic made me happy.

>>6889440
>clusterfuck
>apeshit
kek

>>6889428
That wasn't me, besides like I said
>>6889386

Fedora bookcase kek.... You would know wouldn't you!!

I'm picking up some free bookshelves tmo. TY Craigslist.

Here's mine.

>>6889493
>actual fedora

>>6889493
Top kek

>>6889493
>nail polish
Tits?

god where do you fags find these junk heaps

Right way up.

>>6889523
I can respect it... although im a bit confused by your anthony bourdaine fetish

Here's a selfie of me with my bookshelves here in my garage.

>>6889537
They're from like 3+ years ago when I thought he was funny and being a chef would be a cool job. Wrong on both accounts.

>>6889546
I wonder how this guy would feel about his self-help scam* becoming a 4chan meme

*not really more of a scam than any self help tbh

>>6889523
Whats so good about bel ami... I see it a lot in favorite novel threads... I read it recently and it didnt get my dick too hard, was just so so

Are bookshelves threads on /lit/ the equivalent to booktuber vids?

>>6889559
I haven't read it yet, unfortunately. It came in the mail the same day as about 4 other books and my Kindle.
>>6889565
Maybe

>>6889565
Wouldn't it be your equivalent of battlestation threads.

whatever happened to that dude who had literally hundreds of books and claimed that he had read them all? i remember seeing him trip a couple of years ago

One of you guys sent me the copy of Under the Volcano.

>>6889578
i remember that guy, he did have a nice collection regardless of whether he read them though lol

Shelf 2 and 3

>>6889372
Read V and never look back.

With shelf one. 90 percent are mine. Couple are the gfs. I just gave away 200 books as we moved to a smaller apartment. Most of them I have to specific people (here I think you would really like master and margarita, etc)

>>6889523
Pretty good never read collection, m8.
Do your friends think you're the smart one yet?

>>6889921
>giving away books for free
You're a good guy
I gave away some of my extra Harry Potter copies to my friend

A shit ton of Sci-fi, a small amount of Fantasy (basically just Tolkein) some random cultural study stuff (like anthropology etc.) a bunch of science stuff and then a shit ton of history (mostly just military) and then quite a few classics.

>>6889984
If I'm not going to reread in the near future I like to give the book to someone I think it will benefit most.

All kinds of stuff. Over 5000 books, including absolutely anything I felt like reading.

>>6890018
You're never going to read all of them, are you? How many so far?

>>6889964
>never read

>>6890018
You're not reading any of that, you're just a fucking hoarder.

>>6890018
I see your mom in the reflection

>>6890039
>paperback
>perfect spine
Cheeky cunt.

>>6890018
That is so cool. What else do you hoard?

>>6890018

>>6890018
Can't wait to see you on the next Hoarders: Buried Alive special anon.

>>6890056
I don't think I've ever cracked a spine of a book; the only ones with cracked spines were bought used.

>>6890081
Yeah, you'd have to open them to crack them.

>>6890084
>Cheeky cunt.

>>6890047
>>6890036
I've read most of mine, and some of my wife's. I certainly resemble a hoarder, but... I do read and use a lot of them, since I teach random undergrad courses at two universities. When you're only given a short lead time to assemble a reading list and order student texts, it helps to have a bit of everything on your shelves. I'm not a true hoarder, though, because every few years I manage to sell a bunch of them. Last time we sold about 2000 of them (7000 was just too much for our space), and made three used bookstore owners come to us to look through and pick from bags in our living room (pic related).

sorry for quality my phone a shit

>>6890059
I prefer "habitual yet discerning collector," thank you. I have collections of a few other things, though I don't keep buying indefinitely, so it's been years since I added to them. Here's my wall of butterflies, and my stone egg collection is in that green case, but you can't see it from that angle.

>>6889364
when are you going to get new books?

I'm in a sort of transitional living situation, so all but a few of my books are boxed up. The ones I currently have out are:

>Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio (just finished it about 10 minutes ago)
>Dickens - Oliver Twist (began rereading it a couple days ago)
>Borges - Labyrinths (about to start it)
>Hemmmingway - A Farewell to Arms
>Maupassant - The Necklace and Other Short Stories

>>6890094
Tripfags are the worst. Filtered.

>>6890102
>Forgotten Ally

My fuckin nig-nog.

>>6890102
Can't read many titles, sadly, since the selection I can identify look very interesting and have a good range. Would loan-trade with/10

>>6889523
I remember this... "ubiquitous show off the size of your dick thread" guy right?

>>6889450
4u

>>6889450
Wat, I have that same stranger in a strangeland

Also
>LP&M pocket

stop

>>6890132
Yep

>>6889364
I detect a STEMfag.

>>6889301
decent taste in manga op

>>6890167
>not knowing dolan, king of bookshelf threads
>>r/books

>>6889364
you post this always and i never fail to kek at you listing your epubs and pdfs below the books

>>6889364
Have you ever read Quantum Computing by Jozef Gruska?

Here's mine.

>>6889581
>i'll never have a murrican friend that sends me books in english that are hard to get in my country

>>6890265
good attempt, but you have to change the filename

>>6890314
>not living in the greatest country in the world

i only keep the books i haven't read yet. i throw the rest (the read ones) in the bin.

>>6890332
i know, i wish i could live in Qatar

>>6889376
i am uncomfortable with the idea of spending my money on mein kampf
>>6889523
hang out with me

>>6889345
don't hate. the books with stickers on them are from betterworldbooks.com and because of op, some children in need are getting free books.

>>6890073
>yeah, gloria get this
>my son
>yeah
>I totally told you about him
>oh well..yes I have a son
>he is
>*laughter*
>he says he's taking pictures of his books
>for a website
>to show off
>books
>not his dick
>books
*laughter and shame*

>>6890332
tbh I wish I could've been raised in Ireland then move to America. Life would be gold.

>>6889301

books

1/?

>>6890608
2/?

>>6890610
3/?

>>6890614
4/?

>>6890102
>>6890102
took a better picture, stuff on the top shelf is Plato, Aristotle, Kafka, Haruhi Suzumiya LNs, Rousseau and Rousseau; haven't read them yet

>>6890615
5/5
r8 this fucking mess

It's not much, but I've enjoyed reading everything there (currently reading coming up for air)

>>6890116
interesting dude

>>6890608
>>6890610
>>6890670
some of those are upside down

>>6890719
No, I am >>6890670 and I just checked. Every book on my shelf is oriented correctly.

>>6890102

surely bob hawke's not interesting enough for to read one book let alone two

>>6890047
>>6890059
>>6890080
You guys really need to see what real hoarding is. Just cause his large book collection makes you feel inadequate doesn't mean he's a hoarder.

>>6890670
How is the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?

I know it is around 50 years old now but is highly regarded. What does it mostly focus on?

>>6890898
Read Richard J. Evans' Third Reich Trilogy instead.

They're awful - the lighting and the shelves.

I only want to show off my Socrates bust.

>>6889385

Thank you sir the authority you have as an aspiring author really makes me want to reorganize my books? As a could-be-an-author-someday what sorting method would you recommend for your might-exist-maybe-book? Last name? Color?

>>6890122

That's not a trip tho

Newfags, y'know?

>>6890419

Yeah it's bit like you want to line hitlers pockets with that sweet book money

>>6890116

Nice wall of butterflies. I too can order them six for 40~ and hang them on my wall with no attempt at any real order because I once saw a movie with an intellectual lepidopterist.

Imitation

>>6889301
>>6889337
>>6889440
>>6889450
>>6889493
>>6889581
>>6890018
>>6890097
>>6891054

All this mess triggers me

>>6891572
I just like looking at them, and bought them over many years. What movie is this? Here's some other tchotchke from that space.

>>6890052
>>6890073
>>6890482
maybe she is her wife.

His old and desperate wife.

>>6890116
are you writting Lolita 2?

one

>>6892165
two

>>6892165
ew

>>6892172
howd you like miso soup.. I just finished it a few weeks ago..

>>6890138
All I could afford back when, anon. They have good titles and I didn't know about buying used books.

>>6892184
I liked it. first thing i ever read by him.
once i finish gravity's rainbow for the third time, i'll get to coin locker babies

>>6890419
Anytime, bud,

>>6890608
Isn't that "Stoner" a translation?
And why buy Nietzsche in English rather than Danish? Or Kafka for that matter

>>6889372
THE OFFICIAL POKEMON HANDBOOK DELUXE COLLECTOR'S EDITION

>>6889523
You've got some thick books there. How long did it take you to read The Recognitions for example?

>>6891054
how do you let that happen?

>>6891054
aside from the weeb shit and the mess, i appreciate your taste

>>6890898
>higly regarded in America*
It's dated and perpetuates the myth of the German Sonderweg, but it's a relatively fast, entertaining read.

>>6889921
>>6889921
what is the book with the cockatiel in the lower left corner? my friend has a cockatiel and i'm thinking maybe she's be interested (in aesthetics, if nothing else)

>>6889385
>Coming for someone who loves book and is currently writing one
>your in the /lit/ boards
>your
>currently writing a book
>your
Ok

>>6891559
Back in my day we couldn't filter trips. We just had to deal with their incessant ramblings about sucking cocks day in and day out.

>>6893096
John Green

>>6892800
That's a new addition I haven't even opened it yet. Infinite Jest and Les Mis each took me 3 weeks with work/life so I figure probably the same

A -lot- of stuff is missing. I borrow out a lot of books and never get them back. Lots of SF on the shelf right now.

>>6893136
2

>>6893136

>>6893144
>Horselover Fat

>>6893144
3

>>6893146
This was the reply I was expecting. I do read way too much science fiction.

>>6893131

>>6893168
I would have thought it was the Dawkins that earned you a tip of the fedora.

>>6893136
>>6893144
>>6893156
fucking lol

>>6893168
>implying science fiction and other genre trash doesn't get a huge fucking pass on /lit/ for no good reason
It was Dawkins

>only have one flimy shelf my dad made me as a child
>it holds my video games
>my books have to go on the shelf in my closet
>dont have money to even make a new shelf let alone buy a cheap one

I'm scum, I know

>>6890073

>>6893207
Because of a good amount of it is good. I guess The God Delusion on any shelf warrants criticism, eh?

>>6889301
Is that Donkey Kong 64 I spy?

>>6889450
What's the pink and blue book on the bottom shelf?

>>6889301
Do you need to finish pentium 1 to read pentium 2?

>>6893303
Naturally

>>6893134
Nice. Could you do me a favor with that Recognitions edition? Could you tell me the ISBN on the back because I've been looking for it for ages, can't seem to find it in the UK.

Part2

Part 3

Part 4

>>6893957
>>6893988
>>6893995
>>6894001
>Booktube, the shelf

Part 5

>>6889301
I only have a hardcover copy of Les Misérables.
am I patrician?

>>6893260
What's your point? The Man of Steel dvd? The case having glass doors? The partial reflection? I'm confused.

This thread is triggering me.

>>6889301
Slowly building my collection. I regret not being a fan of books when I was younger, but at least it's not too late to start.

>>6895439
Was Freakonomics any good?

>>6895480
The first two are great, the third one is interesting but not quite as good as the first two, and the fourth book isn't great (it's just a collection of their blog posts). The books are kinda like a more interesting, economic version of Malcolm Gladwell's books.

>>6895512
Have you, by any chance, read Freefall by Joseph Stiglitz?

>>6889301
These are the only books I have read. I've been posting on /lit/ for 4 years now.

>>6895528
No, I haven't.

>>6893957
>>6893988
>>6893995
>>6894001
>>6894010

utterly disgusting

>>6894001
>>6893995
>>6893988
>>6893957

>>>/reddit/

Honestly. Why the fuck do you even come here, faggot?

>>6895596
>>6895606
At least he's reading, you insufferable snobs.

>>6895613

>he
clearly a female

>>6895561
i kek'd

>>6895618
All the better. Like it or not, it's a major step above the rest.

>>6895613

>But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

>It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

>Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.


Get Bloom'ed, faggot.

>>6895636

>>6895613
>>6895636
>>6895637

In my first day of my junior year semester for literature. half the class recommended Game of Thrones, John Green, Divergent, or Harper Lee or someone like Bukowski or Vonnegut.

Tell me, how is reading that garbage helping at all?

It's not.

>>6895637
Hardly. These are the sentiments of a snobbish coot who is divorced from reality and likely grumbles "back in my day" more often than he should. The love of reading isn't pigeonholed into what the media deems readable; that would be underestimating an enlightened mind and overestimating the driving force of Capitalism.
I've met several diehard Harry Potter fans who went on to read Aurelius, McCarthy, and droves of other, non-Pop reads.

>>6895661
>I've met several diehard Harry Potter fans who went on to read Aurelius, McCarthy, and droves of other, non-Pop reads.

And which one would they have been better off not reading? And they would have gotten there without HP.

And the media says read garbage.

And stop lying, you don't know those people at all.

And McCarthy is garbage tbh. Bloom isn't right with everything.

>>6895648
Reading fundamentally stimulates the mind at the basest argument. Granted, these are *very* light reads, they're undoubtedly better than not reading, which is what much of America does anyway.
Think of it this way: if a child enjoys reading a single one of those novels, they'll want to read more. If they're curious enough, they'll branch out into other genres. Kids don't start out reading Tolstoy, especially not /lit/. Everyone started somewhere. Yet here we all are.

sorry for picture quality

>>6895677
see
>>6895637


No, it's not better than not reading. They inherently would read better things, more well written things, and more informed and education things in the comments section of reddit and tumblr and facebook than they would in YA garbage.

>>>/reddit/
Or die, I don't care which. Just shut the fuck up.

>>6895674
>McCarthy is garbage tbh
Well, that's, like, your opinion, man. (Literally is, though).

>And stop lying, you don't know those people.
Not that I need to address this, but you don't know me, mate.

>And the media says read garbage.
Yes, it does. But that doesn't mean you have to follow their commands.

>>6895678
>upside down
>not focused
>one giant blur
>ss.s.s.sorry for the quality

How are you so stupid. It's 2015. We were basically born with fucking computers and cameras in our hands for fucks sake.

>>6895687
>Yes, it does. But that doesn't mean you have to follow their commands

But you are defending that fact you stupid fucking cunt.

>mate
I don't know you, but I do know that you are a lying piece of shit.

>>>/tumblr/

Honestly.

>>6895684
In your highly subjective opinion, what is "inherently" better in terms of children's books?
Also, for such a well-read bunch, does /lit/ have any arguments which supersede ">>>/reddit/"?

>>6895694
No, you don't know anything, and it's quite visible in your poorly-hashed rebuttals. Each response drips with denial and literally nothing else.
>If you've nothing worthwhile to argue, then piss off.

>>6895708
You are arguing that reading garbage YA is better than not reading at all.

And it's not because it leads to nowhere.

You were wrong four posts ago. There isn't any need for a rebuttal. You are arguing against a fact, you ignorant cunt.

Now for the last time. Shut the fuck up, or die, or go to reddit.

>>6895736
How old are you, honestly?

>>6895708
>No, you don't know anything
>Each response drips with denial and literally nothing else

Irony amirite

>>6895744
Scroll up, moron. You sound like my girlfriend: incapable of maintaining her memory long enough to be held accountable for the dumb shit she says.

>>6895749
holy shit
this is embarrassing anon
go to your room and think about what you've done

>>6895752
When did /lit/ become infested with underage faggots and freshmen C-average English-lit majors? I know there've always been snobs, but instead of learning the importance of critical thinking, you've replaced all efforts with lackluster trolling.
>Best of luck to you on your hackneyed capstone paper on Dostoyevsky and the human condition, you prat.

>>6895749
Scrolling up would imply that I have yet to have any knowledge of what happened
But then you said that I remind you of someone with a faulty memory

How can I lose a memory of something I never knew?

I want you to think about this. Take a walk. Make some tea. Then come
back and chat with me

>>6895769
>posts response that is devoid of value
>posts meme that is devoid of relation
>is an all-around blackhole of an individual

>>6895775
>>Each response drips with denial and literally nothing else
>>posts response that is devoid of value
Lmao. Some serious 'critical thinking' over here.

Am I cool /lit/?

>>6895795
you look like you got into literature like 2 months ago which makes your possession of 5 nabokov books highly suspect

>>6896101
That's a sliver of my collection, tripfriend. I've read all of those. First one was Invitation to a Beheading. Then Despair. Then The Eye. Then Lolita. Finally Pale Fire.

As someone who wrote a highly self-indulgent thesis with over 500 rambling footnotes that sometimes stretched on for pages, Pale Fire greatly amused me.

>>6896196
axaxaxxaaxaxa

>>6896196

ANU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE

>>6889301
All I have is on this list right now.
http://pastebin.com/mUth05JW
Everything's in boxes right now, sorry.

When quoting Bloom's blowhard crap about the perils of genre/YA, keep in mind that:
A) he's full of shit and empirically wrong. Anything kids and teens read makes them more likely to develop the habit of reading, and to get better at it. This isn't debatable. Rowling has made untold thousands of people into readers, and that's good.
B) He's full of shit and never read the books at all--not even the first one, not even a page. He makes a claim about the content-- that the phrase "stretched his legs" appears "several dozen times" in the first book--which is utter crap. HE'S LYING. I like classic Bloom myself, but this shit is embarrassing to him, not quoteworthy.

>>6895795

Try-hard.

>>6889372
>Choke
well?

>>6890621
>not learning spanish to read el Quijote

>>6893957
>>6893988
>>6893995
>>6894001
this is what mostly fills up booktube traffic. If yours, then you're probably a teen booktuber.

I usually keep some Spider-Man toys on the top shelf, but I moved them so yyou could see the books

I need more books /lit/
Any must read?

>>6897045
what

>>6895795
Did you like The Fall? I liked The Plague but it was kind of a slog at times.

>>6889301
Seed a shit.

>>6889301
Mostly books, but some CDs too.

>>6900075
It was 50 cents at my library

>>6899939
The Fall is the best thing I've read by him. I liked it better than The Plague (I agree with your criticism) and The Stranger. It's short and sweet, though not as short as The Stranger.

I used to have a pretty full bookcase but for the last almost decade I haven't gotten my books out of storage and pretty much read .epubs on my phone or my cheap ereader. I don't if that makes me a piece of shit but I am pretty poor.

Sorry for shitty image quality.
On the left picture are my fantasy shelves with the shit I used to read before I got interested in literature, the tallest stack on the desk is also fantasy. The rest is literature, mostly Dutch and English, some books on science, a few bibles and a book about beer. I've got a whole philosophy shelf as well, which I can't showcase because I'm in the middle of moving and my philosophy is already at my student dorm.

>>6902267
>>6901303
>>6898515
>>6895478
>>6894826
>>6893957
>vomitingprofusely.exe

>>6890116
He's a literary lepidopterist.

>>6891054
where did you get the bust?

>>6902267
Sweet GRRM books, man

>>6904184
At this museum in Cologne, Germany, right next to the famous cathedral.

They also had these little shieldbiter figures, and I regret not getting one of those.

>>6892954
Thanks, but what do you appreciate in particular?

>>6895478
>he arranges them by height

Had to get them on the table since my bookshelve is too high to photograph. Other half is at my student dorm.

>>6904669
pt. 2

>>6895439
do you happen to live in Calgary?

>>6890314
Where do you live?

>implying

Master race reporting in.

Just kidding, all other pros(e) aside, I really wish I had a nice bookshelf in my lounge.

>tfw you will never rearrange, hold, and look over all the books you have read in the past with fond memory and get the urge to re-read out of the blue

>tfw will never lend my beloved copies to my son I will eventually have so we can share something special, even though I know full well he won't return them in mint condition like I always kept them

where th magic happens

>>6905415
People got extremely faggy when typewriters came out and said they were an insult to the art of writing. All the "muh paper" people are going to look just as silly one day. Sorry not sorry that you people lack the necessary plasticity to get on with a rapidly changing world.

Mine

>>6904344
lots of various history, exploration related stuff (new world, etc), classics, the bust, mein kampf, all the good stuff

>>6905747
mi negro pobre!

>>6904669
>>6904677

>at least 33 penguins....

i..i cant take this shit, /lit/

>>6889388
noice
>>6889523
Although I haven't read most of your books in there, I feel like we have the same taste.
>>6889581
How's the Tom Wolfe? WillI like it even if I think astronauts are boring?
>>6895795
You are a real high-school existentialist. How did you like Portnoy's Complaint?

>>6895736
This is bullshit. I would read the goosebumps and fear street books when I was younger and that got me into reading. How are these books any different?

>>6891994

Your stuff is neat bro, don't let these jealous fags bother you.

>>6906614
It's crap marketed toward older kids

>>6906626
So were those books, and here we are.

1/3

2/3

3/3 pls no bully

>>6906644
no bully?

>>6906639
all that trash on your shelves and you have bolano bookmarked halfway.

seriously, throw everything else away and start over.

>>6896133
>as someone who is a faggot, doing faggy things greatly amused me

>>6890314
Bookdepository.com has free worldwide shipping

>>6906644
ur a nerd

bullied XD

Just 3 books: Metro 2033, 2034 and a bright red russian dictionary. Dust would be even more of an issue if there were more. I'm also not paying capitalists for their paper anymore.

>>6907024
trve patrician

>>6907062
I four more coming in the mail. I give them away to girls I sleep with.

>>6907062
I have four more coming in the mail. I give them away to girls I sleep with.

>>6907103
Yawn.

>>6907024
Mel Gibson already did it

1/2

>>6907147
2/2

r8 me bros

>>6907149
>>6907147
I can't see any of the titles in image 2.

>>6906624
Thanks, though I don't worry much about random insults from strangers: I'm too old. I like a visually interesting space with odd things folks can notice and pick up (besides the books), be they cool or cheesy. One of my most prized possessions is an antique jar of French cut green beans, dating from at least 1870. At some point the lead lid got melted on, and it's kept the beans vacuum-fresh and green (and obviously poisonous, but I'm not planning to open it). Pic related.

>>6907172
They get better with age, cook them up for a fancy date!

>>6907172

That's really fucking cool actually.

Sorry for shit quality. That bottom shelf is stuff that isn't mine, (Save for Les Miserables)

>>6907147
>>6907149

>reading redwall books past martin the warrior
>drug shit
>can't see anything in 2nd picture.

come on bro

>>6892172

>Finne
>gans
>Wake

no, sorry.

>>6893156
is there a reason you have books laying horizontally on top of other books
when you could have more room for them if you didn't have fucking alcohol on a BOOKshelf

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4

5

Bonus Booze!

>>6908750
>>6908757
>>6908763
>>6908767
>>6908772

>penguins everywhere
what is wrong with you people

>>6908786
Beautiful classic books that are also somewhat inexpensive.

What's wrong with them?

>>6908767

>homestuck

ruins everything

>>6908790
do you like B&N classics?

>>6908794
Four classics that will echo through the ages

>>6908780
how's the bombay east? they don't sell it in these parts.

>>6908804
Just looked them up since we don't have B&N in my country. They are really pretty, but I really like the modern look of Penguin Modern Classics.

I was the same guy who posted my collection of Catcher in the Ryes and the silver 1979 one is really a prized possession.

>>6908815
Really good actually, the citrus grass really comes through! Berkley Square is my absolute favorite though.

>>6908811
Can you post a picture from the front of that Ulysses?

>>6908872
In front of boardgames for maximum materialism.

>>6908888
How's the paper quality? What about the explanatory notes?

>>6908907
It's not an annotated version if that's what you're getting at. But is has a good introduction (if I remember correctly) and the timetable at the back.

>>6908763
What's the massive one published by Everyman?

>>6908772
Is that the Ultimate Hitchhikers in German?

Good books though. Enjoyed looking.

>>6908997
Ulysses and Swedish (stolen from my stepmother)! Thanks!

>>6908888

you seem pretty cool, overall

>>6909013
This day on /lit/ has been fantastic! People are calling me cool, telling me my Finnegans Wake style writing wasn't awful.

It's almost like /lit/ doesn't deserve it's bad reputation?!

>>6909022
link 2 writing pls

>>6909107
>>6907800
Please don't have any expectations, it was meant as a joke.

>>6908772
What did you think of tärningsspelaren? I read it a few years back, I really liked it.

>>6909125
I really liked it, it was super cool reading it just as my early onset nihilism set in (I think I was about 15?). Close correlations between it and Fight Club in terms of theme as far as I'm concerned.

(We're talking about The Dice Man)

1/?

2/?

>>6909227
>le hitchhiker
>star wars
>harry potter
it's ok, you can stop posting

3/?
paper back shelf

4/?

>>6908888
We have crazy similar board game and book taste. I wish we could be friends irl.

1/2

>>6909727
2/2

I just buy fucking everything, I've read most of it though.

>>6889921
>Ward No. 6
My man

>>6889440
is this a troll? Lemony Snicket is great though

>>6889301
books

>>6889546
Im guessing you never went to college as well?

>>6908750
>Swede buying English translations of Nietzsche etc.
What's up here?
Also Cards Against Humanity is a total normalfag game.

>>6911666
CAH is normfag, yes. But I need to socialize from time to time.

As for reading philosophy in English: almost all analysis is in English, it's easier to compare and contrast if you read it all in the same language. I also find it easier overall to read in English since I read mostly English books in their original language. Philosophy in English is also easier to find and is far far cheaper (thank you penguin).

>>6906513
Get over yourself. Penguin is one of the most important publishers of classics in the world, and there's nothing wrong with their books that isn't true of other publishers at times. Stop believing the /lit/ crap.