/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17598478]

ITT: Post your bookshelf and other anons assume things about you.

[Anonymous No.17598615]

You are giving us Wolfe-friends a bad name.

[Anonymous No.17598624]

>>17598478
Is Vollman good?

[Anonymous No.17598627]

>>17598478
I have to assume that your anime DVDs are on a other shelf, but that the most mainstream show you have is Lain.
1/4 of my shelves.

[Anonymous No.17598642]

>>17598627
2/4

[Anonymous No.17598653]

>>17598642
3/4

[Anonymous No.17598663]

>>17598653
4/4

[Anonymous No.17598686]

>>17598478
Based Asuka.

[Anonymous No.17598814]

>>17598478
You are a weeb

[Anonymous No.17598833]

>>17598478
It’s all just gonna be the same shit.

[Anonymous No.17598844]

>>17598478
How is the Ice Trilogy?

[Anonymous No.17598952]

Pt 1- american lit and poetry
>>17598624
Absolutely.

[Anonymous No.17598975]

>>17598952
Pt 2 - british lit/philosophy (which i dont read much any more

[Anonymous No.17598988]

>>17598975
Pt 3 - earlier american lit and non american and non british stuff.

[Anonymous No.17599002]

>>17598988
Pt 4- random nonfiction. Also writing resources

[Anonymous No.17599100]

>>17599002
>>17598988
>>17598975
>>17598952
>alcoholics anonymous
You didn't need to post the other three pictures, everyone's deductions about you are going to be based off this.

[Anonymous No.17599146]

>>17599100
Bro theres plenty of other good stuff to make fun of. The AA/NA is the easiest next to the no fear shakespeares.

[Anonymous No.17599163]

[Anonymous No.17599175]

[Anonymous No.17599185]

>>17598642
Narcissistic tendencies

[Anonymous No.17599215]

[Anonymous No.17599228]

>>17599215
retard minimalist that thinks buying new books in white covers is minimalistic

[Anonymous No.17599233]

>>17599215
>>17599228
It’s aesthetic af tbqh

[Anonymous No.17599237]

Posting your bookshelf in this lame thread means you're a huge pseud. That's not an assumption, that's just a fact.

[Anonymous No.17599244]

>>17599233
im >>17599228 and i agree it's aesthetic as fuck; i hate the trend of colorful covers and shit like >>17598642

[Anonymous No.17599271]

>>17599228
all new pocket books in france are white, it's not me being a minimalist

[Anonymous No.17599403]

Posted it a while back to some mirth, own 150~ other books but can't be bothered to photograph

[Anonymous No.17599410]

>>17598478
I know exactly who you are, your posts are incredibly recognizable because you read terrible self-published Japanse sci-fi that should never have left its country of origin.

[Anonymous No.17599414]

[Anonymous No.17599444]

This is just the top, the bottom is mostly interest-related books, so kind of easy to guess what I'm like based on them.

[Anonymous No.17599462]

[Anonymous No.17599473]

>>17599414
You haven't read most of those.

>>17599444
Yo u started reading after /lit/, not before.

>>17599403
Based. You don't want or need my criticism.

>>17598478
Never satisfied a woman.

[Anonymous No.17599477]

>>17598627
>>17598642
>>17598653
>>17598663
>hasn't read more than 20% of this
>hasn't had sex in 3+ years

[Anonymous No.17599484]

>>17599473
>You started reading after /lit/, not before
most of these were pre-/lit/ purchases

[Anonymous No.17599488]

>>17599444
Noice
>Also checked

[Anonymous No.17599497]

>>17599473
I've read about 70% of them.

[Anonymous No.17599564]

frens, I'm really sorry for this offtopic reply but my IP range is banned from posting files.

https://tmpfiles.org/download/160273/ff14ca77-0e5c-4699-9fd3-bfae23a585d0.jpg

ESL newfag here, am I supposed to read this starter kit in order? Like BNW first and Siddhartha last or can I just choose one and start?

[Anonymous No.17599570]

>>17599564
not ordered

[Anonymous No.17599575]

>>17599564
and stop posting cp

[Anonymous No.17599584]

>>17599564
and skip f451 (that's c233 for you non-americans), not worth the paper it's printed on

[Anonymous No.17599587]

We had this thread a few days ago.

Shockingly, I have not bought a new shelf in that time.

[Anonymous No.17599601]

>>17599587
fuck OP >>17598478 did you realize that a similar thread has been posted in the past?? better check that next time before you waste everyone's time with a duplicate thread again

[Anonymous No.17599606]

>>17599410
Thats based

[Anonymous No.17599609]

>>17599575
>>17599570
Thx a lot c:
and no, that's not the reason. The IP range ban is because my ISP as a whole is banned. So anyone using the ISP I use can't post files.

[Anonymous No.17599644]

>>17599609
np. have you read anything long in English before? most of the works listed are late middle school / early high school level in the US, but some might be a bit harder than others as an ESL. Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, No Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, and Slaughterhouse Five are (from memory) the simplest of the ones in that list. I'd also recommend trying Animal Farm in place of 1984, it'll be easier reading, shorter, and still very enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.17599648]

this is what I've got on my desk

[Anonymous No.17599662]

>>17599564
I'm ESL too, start with Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.17599672]

>>17599648
your wife has sex with other men. you're aware but trying to avoid confrontation

[Anonymous No.17599689]

>>17599644
I've read Frankenstein (Abriged :c), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), Animal Farm, The Time Machine (the one that's Sci. fi. HG Wells) and maybe 3 other random, fairly easy books.

I tried to read Lolita and not only got an awkward boner midway, but also had to open up sparknotes at just chapter 5. I've read 1984 and I found it comparitively easy. I also tried reading Of Mice and Men but it had too many details for me, but still was easier than Lolita.

[Anonymous No.17599703]

>>17599662
Don't you dare with the meme trilogy anon

[Anonymous No.17599712]

>>17599672
I'm not married and I don't have a gf

[Anonymous No.17599734]

>>17599689
Yeh Lolita is a step or two more difficult than the others, especially given the unreliability of the narration.

Try Slaughterhouse Five next. Vonnegut is super light reading (at least to me -- I rarely consider how something might be to an ESL) but also very entertaining and contains as substantial of themes as any major literary work, just given very literally and without a ton of subtlety -- which, I'd think, will actually be useful for you.
>>17599712
that was my second guess

[Anonymous No.17599737]

>>17599689
what's your native lingua btw?

[Anonymous No.17599750]

>>17599606
Never said it wasn't.

[Anonymous No.17599789]

>>17599703
I'm serious anon, after Infinite Jest you can pretty much read anything

[Anonymous No.17599802]

>>17599444
if you aren't catholic you will be soon
>>17599648
most likely to get invited to parties as you're entertaining, yet no one wants to be your friend

[Anonymous No.17599819]

>>17599789
yeh... that's like saying after you run a marathon you can run a 10k. Obviously, but it's not the most efficient way to run a 10k
>>17599802
>if you aren't catholic you will be soon
explain

[Anonymous No.17599970]

>>17598952
>>17598988
you're an american

[Anonymous No.17599979]

>>17599672
>>17599734
KEK

[Anonymous No.17600029]

>>17599999

[Anonymous No.17600031]

>>17598478

[Anonymous No.17600051]

>>17599163
Meme bookzzz

[Anonymous No.17600065]

>>17599403
Meme boooookz

[Anonymous No.17600075]

>>17599414
>the simpsons Bart vs the space mutants
Based

[Anonymous No.17600092]

>>17599444
>Cooking books
Based and chefpilled

[Anonymous No.17600240]

>>17599462
Where is The Landmark Arrian?

[Anonymous No.17600365]

>>17598478
yes i have seen se7en

>>17598627
you are on the path

>>17598642
>>17598653
>>17598663
oops you got off the path

>>17598975
>which i dont read much any more
good. you're almost figuring out secular writing is shit-tier.

>>17599163
just a guy looking for meaning who's been memed on by lit a little bit

>>17599175
based polishbro doesnt read enough

>>17599215
cringe

>>17599462
autistic about military history and underdeveloped sense of aesthetics, despite this a smart cookie

>>17599587
early 20s, male, needs to spit out the blackpill. rustin cohle is a loser.

>>17599648
>french philosophy
disgusted_apu.jpg

>>17600031
nice meme but hate is impotent

[Anonymous No.17600372]

shelf 2 of ??

[Anonymous No.17600455]

>>17600446
someone in an earlier thread had asked for "more Catholic" books, short of five volumes of Aquinas and the Catechism this is the best I can do

3 of ??

[Anonymous No.17600459]

Heh

[Anonymous No.17600471]

>>17600455
under the dustcovers, are the books themselves different shades of green or red? or consistent? this is my worry with things like loeb...

[Anonymous No.17600501]

>>17600471
you can see for yourself in the pictures. anyway there's a little fading in some of the really old Loebs but otherwise they're pretty regular.

[Anonymous No.17600591]

>>17600501
no, I can't, the picture has dustcovers

[Anonymous No.17600603]

>>17599163
cool a shelf full of books you definitely had no fun reading hope it was worth it to appear smart to a bunch of retards on the internet:)

[Anonymous No.17600610]

>>17600591
look where the dustcovers reach their upper limit. they're wrapped around the dyed hardcover interiors.

[Anonymous No.17600618]

>>17600603
not that anon but Fitzgerald's Aeneid was fucking banger

[Anonymous No.17600635]

>>17600610
>try to judge the color of this tiny shaded portion of the books in bad lighting
come on dude, just take the covers off and take a photo

[Anonymous No.17600647]

>>17600635
no

[Anonymous No.17600668]

>>17600647
so you're not going to answer my question, then

[Anonymous No.17600688]

>>17600668
i already have. this is your last (You).

[Anonymous No.17600717]

>>17600688
>what are the colors of the books
>the dustcovers, as you can see...
>but the books themselv--
>LOOK AT THE DUSTCOVERS

[Anonymous No.17600724]

Can’t wait for you guys to tell me things that are totally wrong about myself

[Anonymous No.17600733]

>>17600724
magnificent shelf, anon. great books are nice too. take care of your heart, cardio is so important to health and longevity.

[Anonymous No.17600786]

>>17600733
Thank you sir. Great books are from the 40s and given to me by my grandfather who I never met. They’re awesome. As far as books on the heart go that is specifically concerning lipoprotein little a. You should look into it also anon. It’s referred to as the widow maker and perfectly healthy individuals (mostly men) are often killed by a heart attack in their 40s or 50s because of it. It’s genetically determined and mine is in the 99th percentile so I gotta stay healthy. Anyway, if you’re interested maybe take a gander at is as it could help you live a longer life.

[Anonymous No.17600811]

>>17600786
thanks anon, i will certainly look into this. im pretty sure i've inherited heart problems, maybe not a physical defect but certainly a propensity for failure.

[Anonymous No.17600859]

>>17600455
just curious, could you post what the books look like?

[Anonymous No.17600862]

>>17600717
Blind and dumb

[Anonymous No.17600874]

>>17600724
Your sexuality is as straight as those bookshelves

[Anonymous No.17600884]

>>17600862
Those are dustcovers, you autist. Also, OP's assertion about age of volumes is definitively false, you can see vols 56, 144, 461, and 485 all have similar colors while 143 and 476 are significantly different. Clearly not related to age of the volumes.

[Anonymous No.17600887]

[Anonymous No.17600917]

>>17600884
>what is sun damage

>>17600859
no your post is a ploy sameanon

>>17600887
this is a nice shelf. 100/100 on having a Tanakh

[Anonymous No.17600929]

[Anonymous No.17600940]

>>17600929
you are not so secretly a coomer

[Anonymous No.17600952]

>>17600884
Holy fuck it's not hard to look at the top of the book just open your chink eyes

[Anonymous No.17600987]

>>17600940
How did you come to that conclusion?

[Anonymous No.17601000]

>>17600987
japanese novels, scifi, fantasy, meme books

[Anonymous No.17601056]

>>17600724
how’d you get a shelf like that? impressive, very nice

[Anonymous No.17601058]

>>17599587
So far, you’re the only person in this thread that I can confidently say has had sex

[Anonymous No.17601103]

>>17601058
post shelf big league sex haver

[Anonymous No.17601164]

>>17600917
sun damage doesn't affect books covered in dust covers.
>>17600952
you have too much confidence in your own eyes in spite of to evidence

[Anonymous No.17601188]

>>17601164
I don't even have to see your shelf to say you are mentally ill

[Anonymous No.17601218]

>>17601188
it's here >>17599444

[Anonymous No.17601228]

>>17601188
you're welcome to provide any argument whatsoever. Entirely welcome.

[Anonymous No.17601621]

>>17600365
Nice brother! Love the PVS books.

[Anonymous No.17601636]

>>17601621
PPS*

[Anonymous No.17601694]

>>17598642
I notice most of the people I see with LOTR on their shelves IRL have a bookmark a couple hundred pages in or so. Seems to be a common place to stop. I did too, for years, and it took three tries before the story grabbed me and then I read most of it in a week.

[Anonymous No.17601721]

>>17598627
I love Scott Adams so much! One of the few based writers who is still alive. His book Loser Think should be mandatory reading in public school.

Also, thats a pretty big Jung collection you have. How many have you read?

[Anonymous No.17601732]

>>17598478
>Lovecraft short story figure
>Asuka figure
Racist

[Anonymous No.17601862]

Pure cringe

[Anonymous No.17601923]

[Anonymous No.17601934]

>>17598478
>bookshelf SINGULAR
I thought this was a forum of book lovers

[Anonymous No.17602028]

It looks like shit but I just cleaned it up and it somehow looked even worse before

[Anonymous No.17602110]

>>17599175
Baza, mam to samo wydanie pani bovary i skończyłem je z tydzień temu

[Anonymous No.17602303]

>>17601934
This is a zoomer doomer forum sir

[Anonymous No.17602306]

1/2

[Anonymous No.17602319]

>>17602306
sorry for the shitty quality. it's near midnight and this is all what the few lights in my room could do

[Anonymous No.17602372]

>>17602028
>DSM-III

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[Anonymous No.17602726]

>>17599477
Very fair assumption, but my wife disagrees.
>>17601721
Agreed, I’ve learned a lot from him. As for the Jung, I’ve read most of the shorter works you see, Aion, and the Red Book. The Collected Works I picked up with my Rona bonus money in recent months, and plan to read them over the next few years as I do research for a novel.

[Anonymous No.17602770]

>see Infinte Jest on every other bookcase
>wow must be a good book
>read a short synopsis
>opening paragraph
>Infinite Jest is a famously difficult read

So this is just one of those books /lit/ users love to own to appear smart I take it?

[https://youtu.be/Ofn2A1p13Sg No.17602813]

>>17602726
Yes, you bullies, i'm his wife. He has a very big penis and pleases me very much. Stop bullying such a loving husband.

[Anonymous No.17602828]

>>17602770
IJ is the meme of all memes on /lit/. How new are you?

[Anonymous No.17602833]

>>17602770
lot of people here want to fit in

[Anonymous No.17602862]

>>17602828
Pretty new. Only started to read good literature regularly last year.

[Anonymous No.17602943]

>>17601923
I like the fact that MAUS and a Garfield book aren't too far apart on your shelf

[Anonymous No.17602959]

>>17599215
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH WHITE!

[Anonymous No.17603182]

>>17598478
You would drag me to go see the new eva movie even though I wouldn't want other people to see me go to the premiere
>>17598627
We would stay up late trying to convince girls in bars that the lesser keys of Solomon could cure their depression.
>>17598988
Would be a good time until one of us got stuck on an idea (e.g. the best fall out game or why the eagles didn't just take frodo to the mountain), and we would subsequently get kicked out of the bar when we started coming to blows.
>>17599163
You would be the guy that would have to drive me and the previous guy home, lecturing us the entire way back as to why the eagles were busy.
>>17599175
We would sneak out at night and spray paint famous quotes onto public freeways.
>>17599215
We would always have to go to your house to hang out because your OCD would force you to clean anyones home you go to.
>>17599403
You'd be the guy a friend introduces to me saying something like "yeah he reads books too" only to get shitfaced and repeat the phrase "wooden doors" the rest of the night.
>>17599414
We would get along well until I started explaining how the prequels are objectively, sincerely, better films, until your girlfriend that is far too attractive to be dating you has to come pick you up.
>>17599444
I would run into you at one of those monthly art shows, and we would be like "oh yeah hi" and awkwardly stand there for a bit, wondering what our lives would be like if we ever actually hung out together, knowing that it would probably just be more comforting to imagine it than to live it because we know the other person is just going to be a disappointment and that running into them briefly once in a while is nice and keeps the hope alive.
>>17599462
We would never hang out because you would invite me over to watch you read.
>>17599587
We would go see an art film and make fart jokes in the back row the whole time until we get kicked out.
>>17599648
I feel like everyone wants to go to parties you throw because you give off real euro 70s vibes, but that the only reason you throw parties is because otherwise no one wants to hang out with you.
>>17600031
You get to hang out with "wooden doors" guy previously mentioned because I'd introduce the two of you to each other, because even rabid homosexuals need friends.
>>17600365
I feel like you would get mad whenever someone said "start with the greeks" because you have been starting with the greeks for more than a decade and never stopped.
>>17600724
You are not a person, you are a commodified school from the 1800s.
>>17600887
You would complain about weebaoos not appreciating the rest of japans culture and infrastructure. We would get along I think, if only because you would be one of the few people who would have new and interesting things to say about topics I don't care enough about to read myself.
>>17600929
You would make fun of me for not having read confederacy of dunces, but I'd tell you I read catch 22 and you would be mad.

[Anonymous No.17603217]

>>17601621
Middle school me from 20 years ago would think you were super cool. Now me would think you ain't that bad.
>>17601923
>>17602028
HOW DO YOU LIVE SIDEWAYS? ARE YOU OKAY? DO YOU WALK ON THE WALLS OR DO YOU WALK ON THE FLOOR WALLS?
>>17602306
We would get along very well until you started asking me where I got my theory from, and then I'd start heavily sweating. and pulling my collar and making sea turtle noises to distract you. and I would start to cry because you already read all the books I haven't bothered reading more than 20 pages of. You'd pat me on the back and say it's okay, but I'd say that I exhibit nothing but true pesudo intellectualism and that I am a blight upon the world. And you would say, yes, but that the whole human race is a blight upon the world and lightly pat my back. And I'd stop crying and you would say 'hey bud, lets get some ice cream' and I'd ask if there was cookie dough chocolate chip, and you would say whatever you want bud.

[Anonymous No.17603261]

>>17603182
based

[Anonymous No.17603427]

>>17603182
>You would make fun of me for not having read confederacy of dunces, but I'd tell you I read catch 22 and you would be mad.
I have read Catch-22, it's not in the picture.
I wouldn't make fun of you

[Anonymous No.17603433]

Why is it that my shelf of books I haven’t read is way cooler than the shelf of books I have read?

[Anonymous No.17603471]

>>17602383
solid

[Anonymous No.17603512]

>>17598478

[Anonymous No.17603525]

>>17603512
Noice, who’s included in the book on the top

[Anonymous No.17603541]

>>17603525
1st & 2nd Clement, the (disputed) Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Polycarp, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, and the Didache

[Anonymous No.17603566]

>>17603525
Hmm I’m planning on working my way through the major fathers. What do you think of Erhman’s scholarship though?

[Anonymous No.17603572]

>>17603566
Ehrman's volume is actually quite useful, it includes (limited) textual critical notes between the manuscripts we have for these writings. I personally like such things, so I think it's great.

[Anonymous No.17603615]

>>17603572
Have you looked into his work on the reliability of the NT? Also can you recommend books on the formation of the canon/corruption of the texts. I have found this to be the area that non-Christians attack the most.

[Anonymous No.17603662]

>>17603615
>Have you looked into his work on the reliability of the NT?
I've watched some of his lectures on this, but I have not read his academic books on this (as opposed to the ones he writes for the general public). Other than that I've read some of his blog, which is quite interesting but not enough for me to read it regularly. I prefer Edgar Foster's blog, he will regularly post content relating to the Greek which is my area of interest.
>Also can you recommend books on the formation of the canon/corruption of the texts.
If you want to learn about the formation of canon, and some questions Christians must deal with and ponder on today, then Metzger's book on the canon (the one at the bottom of my stack) is an valuable resource. As well as Gallagher and Meades' The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity. The appendix of this work also contains information regarding the non-canonical works that were still used widely in the early Church, information such as which church fathers accepted it, etc. As for the "corruption," I think thats a loaded term, since there wasn't any organized corruption of scripture which anyone who is familiar with the various manuscripts will know (read through the variants that Metzger discusses in his textual commentary, you would be hard pressed to find any strictly theologically motivated variants). The best defense of the traditional canon and against the myths about textual criticism would be Pickering's The Identity of the New Testament
>I have found this to be the area that non-Christians attack the most.
Yes, mainly Muslim apologists on speakers corner take great liberty with these things. It's annoying as they often make many mistakes, or just repeat the words of scholars who are not Christian (something they would never allow a non-Muslim to do for their scripture / traditions).

[Anonymous No.17603695]

>>17603182
>I would run into you at one of those monthly art shows
I resent how accurately you described my pitiful existence. I can't tell if this is one of those "it describes everyone" memes or whether my bookshelf is actually that revealing. Brb gonna drink self to death.

[Anonymous No.17603728]

>>17603662
Thanks for those I’ll look into them. And yeah the Muslims can always fall back on the concept of the ‘corrupted’ injeel. One of my Muslim friends even doubted whether the apostles were real people, and brought up that some biblical authors are unknown.

[Anonymous No.17603729]

I use an e-reader for the vast majority of books, but I would say those tend to be similarly themed or in similar genres as the ones on the shelf.

[Anonymous No.17603752]

I got a new book.
Why Nations Fail

[Anonymous No.17603764]

>>17603728
>And yeah the Muslims can always fall back on the concept of the ‘corrupted’ injeel
It's a very convenient belief they have, for sure.
>One of my Muslim friends even doubted whether the apostles were real people, and brought up that some biblical authors are unknown.
Whereas many Protestants will have the general belief of a mass apostasy sometime after the Apostles, Muslims hold to a mass apostasy after the death of Christ himself. So of course, they won't look favorably upon what we know or have of the Apostles in our traditions. The book I recommended to you by Pickering deals with this, as he sought to completely defend the NT. It's the best defense I've ever read, and very exhaustive.

[Anonymous No.17603780]

>>17603752
I gagged a bit

[Anonymous No.17603794]

>>17603764
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Identity-New-Testament-Text-IV-ebook/dp/B00OICNA1W

>Is this it?
Yeah they deny the crucifixion and the resurrection, although some of them do accept it. Also there have been scholars that have shed new light on the Quran’s origins (Yasir Qadhi)

[Anonymous No.17603798]

>>17603729
Decent book tbf. Really liked all the historical examples.

[Anonymous No.17603812]

>>17603729
Meant for this anon
>>17603752

[Anonymous No.17603818]

>>17603794
Yeah that's his book, don't worry the IV isn't like the number of the volume or anything, it's just the fourth version of the book

>lso there have been scholars that have shed new light on the Quran’s origins (Yasir Qadhi)
I'd suggest you read the work of Yasin Dutton, his essays are well written and greatly sourced. Shady Nasser's recent book is also worth buying if you can afford it. Both are Muslims (the former a Sunni Maliki, the latter an agnostic Muslim) and so neither are treating the Quran unfairly but are attempting to reconcile it in light of western scholarship.

[Anonymous No.17603842]

>>17603818
Western higher criticism won’t be kind to the narrative of the Quran’s ‘perfect preservation’. Some scholars have received death threats, especially Qadhi (for criticising Salafist thought).

[Anonymous No.17603867]

1/5

[Anonymous No.17603871]

2/5

[Anonymous No.17603878]

3/5

[Anonymous No.17603883]

4/5

[Anonymous No.17603889]

5/5

[Anonymous No.17603892]

>>17603871
>>17603878
>>17603883
>>17603889
jodido

[Anonymous No.17603938]

>>17603892
What?, I don't even have mein kampf or das capital...dude

[Anonymous No.17603957]

>>17603729
How's that twain joan of arc book? Was thinking of grabbing it.

[Anonymous No.17603971]

>>17603182
>>17600365
>I feel like you would get mad whenever someone said "start with the greeks" because you have been starting with the greeks for more than a decade and never stopped.
Extremely accurate but I don't think I would get mad unless they told me they wanted to skip the greeks entirely.

[Anonymous No.17604256]

>>17603871
>>17603878
>>17603883
>>17603889

deleuze, land and jaspers

muy basado

[Anonymous No.17604282]

>>17599215
Based et français pilled.

[Anonymous No.17604306]

>>17604256
Thanks my friend

[Anonymous No.17604344]

>>17599215
>Céline
Based

[Anonymous No.17604424]

>>17604344
> Céline = based
>>17603878
I have it too, pal.

[Anonymous No.17604583]

[Anonymous No.17604979]

>>17604583
gay
gay
homosexual
gay

[Anonymous No.17605030]

>>17598478
>anime figurine
i assume you're either a virgin or have fucked 100s of con sluts

[Anonymous No.17605198]

>>17604583
nice cerebus tpbs. I've always wanted to read it.

[Anonymous No.17605224]

[Anonymous No.17605230]

>>17605224

[Anonymous No.17605305]

Anyone have that picture of that with really cultured but based desk? He has like 500 books. Pictures of art, a cross, a typewriter, two computers.

[Anonymous No.17605322]

>>17605230
Definitely hiding an anime figure somewhere

[Anonymous No.17605324]

>>17605224
>SPQR

but why

[Anonymous No.17605415]

>>17605322
I'm not. I actually have a stronger preference for traditional Chinese culture and history then Japanese. Quality books on Japanese history and culture just happen to be much more accessible. The Japanese also have a larger amount of translated philosophical texts derived from Confucianism thanks to the western interest in Bushido; Far more then what can be found from Chinese thinkers.

>>17605324
As horrid as the author is. SPQR is still one of the best concise histories of Rome out there.

[Anonymous No.17605480]

>>17605415
>As horrid as the author is. SPQR is still one of the best concise histories of Rome out there.

Eh I wouldn't go that far. There's much better and concise overviews available like H.H. Scullard's or Ronald Syme's work.

[Anonymous No.17605497]

>>17603957
Not that anon, but I read it last week and enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.17605525]

Rate

[Anonymous No.17605545]

[Anonymous No.17605568]

>>17605525
depressing
>>17605545
based beyond belief

[Anonymous No.17605664]

I assume OP is a faggot

[Anonymous No.17605684]

>>17605664
Op here
I like boys in skirts

[Anonymous No.17605790]

>>17598653
>House of Leaves and Ship of Theseus
My man!

[Anonymous No.17605796]

>>17605545
>boy's club

the rarest of pepes

[Anonymous No.17605861]

>>17605198
I highly recommend it.

[Anonymous No.17606144]

>>17603217
>We would get along very well until you started asking me where I got my theory from, and then I'd start heavily sweating. and pulling my collar and making sea turtle noises to distract you. and I would start to cry because you already read all the books I haven't bothered reading more than 20 pages of. You'd pat me on the back and say it's okay, but I'd say that I exhibit nothing but true pesudo intellectualism and that I am a blight upon the world. And you would say, yes, but that the whole human race is a blight upon the world and lightly pat my back. And I'd stop crying and you would say 'hey bud, lets get some ice cream' and I'd ask if there was cookie dough chocolate chip, and you would say whatever you want bud.
I haven't even read half of the theory books in my shelf lol. Will definitely commit to it now though because I have no more exams to worry about.
>>17603729
guter shelf anon
>>17604583
is that ccru in the top right?
>>17605224
>>17605230
I like this, you seem like someone who's genuinely interested in history and politics. nice

[Anonymous No.17606165]

[Anonymous No.17606175]

>>17598478
You wish you were born in a different culture

>>17598627
>>17598642
>>17598653
>>17598663
33yo, no relationship, and a nice person to be around with some weird quirks
OR
24yo NEET

>>17598952
>>17598975
>>17598988
>>17599002
Alcoholic

>>17599163
/x/ browser

>>17599175
Polish nationalist but doesn't live in Poland anymore

>>17599215
French aka unlucky

>>17599403
Potential school shooter turned programmer (How are the socks?)

>>17599414
Audio foam on the left, wannabe markiplier, student or recent grad

>>17599462
27yo, something with computer programming, no friends

>>17599587
bibliophile, broke because of books, lives at home, around 26

>>17599648
phil major, no future in sight, avid /lit/ & /adv/ user

>>17600031
/b/ & /pol/ poster

>>17600365
>>17600372
monotheist, agnostic, 42yo, potentially a dad

>>17600724
hides in a library that they live in, phil major

>>17600929
pixelated image so will go off of IJ: student, avid /lit/ browser

>>17601621
pretentious, christian, average person, 18-26yo

>>17601923
anxious post-grad, has a job, recently moved out, likes fish

>>17602306
>>17602319
German, likes white people, doesn't endorse nazism, wanna be phil major, orders sushi alot, might be a leather or latex enthousiast

>>17602383
workes in creative field, has beard, likes IPA

>>17603512
brainwashed by /lit/eral retards

>>17603729
likes naked cats

>>17603867
>>17603871
>>17603878
>>17603883
>>17603889
Spanish, probably barely knows english, likes soccer, has shaved legs, eats bagels inside out

>>17604583
gravitates towards Christianity but isn't christian, guitar poser, listens to scream 'music', likes feet

>>17605224
>>17605230
ordered geographically, enjoys geo mapping probably, browses /lit/ often, potential /lit/eral retard but hopefully not

>>17605525
doesn't make time to read or can't read, enjoys the hooked cross

>>17605545
just ouch man

>>17606165
walked into a second hand bookstore

[Anonymous No.17606442]

>>17606175
>German
correct, with arabic ancestry
>likes white people
not any more than other races
>doesn't endorse nazism
I hate it actually
>wanna be phil major
I'm in my first semester
>orders sushi alot
never tried it
>might be a leather or lates enthousiast
not at all

[Anonymous No.17606456]

>>17606165
I see you read Isekai light novels

[Anonymous No.17606630]

>>17599473
>>17600365
>>17603182
>>17606175

you gay

>>17599414

bart vs the space mutants? this game was the best

[Anonymous No.17606727]

>>17606630

[Anonymous No.17606990]

>>17599215
>english speaking website
>reading translations
ngmi

[Anonymous No.17607498]

other books are in storage

[Anonymous No.17607507]

1/2

[Anonymous No.17607518]

>>17607507
2/2
also i don't know why 4chan makes my pictures sideways

[Anonymous No.17607573]

>>17607518
some editors store rotation as metadata on the image telling the renderer to rotate the image. This is quicker than completely rewriting the file in a different orientation. However, 4chan strips metadata on upload, so the rotation info is lost.

[Anonymous No.17607578]

>>17607573
ah, well that makes sense, thanks!

[Anonymous No.17607656]

>>17600031
No Taleb or Jorjani?? ngmi

[Anonymous No.17608375]

>>17599163
You read atlas shrugged but not the fountainhead

[Anonymous No.17608615]

>>17607656

I don't know who these people are.

[Anonymous No.17608709]

>>17599002
Hot take incoming:
Alcoholics anonymous is actually a bunch of uptight hypocrites as well. The literature is good for an addict, but a junkie in AA sticks out like a sore thumb. People lose it when you say the word "high" at those meetings. Fuck AA. Its also packed with boomer trash.

[Anonymous No.17608712]

>>17600031
You must have been the annyoing edgy kid in high-school who thought that saying racist remarks constituted humour

[Anonymous No.17608717]

>>17608709
Facts. Even for alcoholics, NA is the better route.

[Anonymous No.17608760]

>>17606175
Most based post ever

[Anonymous No.17608956]

>>17606175
>workes in creative field, has beard, likes IPA
I used to work in a creative field. And I have at one point had a beard. I’m a lawyer now :(

[Anonymous No.17608971]

>>17608956
Also I fucking hate ipas. Fernet and lone star for me.

[Anonymous No.17609524]

>>17608971
>fernet

[Anonymous No.17609570]

[Anonymous No.17609583]

>>17609524
At least it’s not that Chicago shit that tastes like baby dippers and jet fuel. Malort?

[Anonymous No.17609593]

>>17599444
beginner memes and unread, or if read completely unabsorbed, or if somewhat absorbed then practically useless to this anon

escoffier is good tho. bet you don't even have a kitchen.

[Anonymous No.17609600]

>>17609583
lone star is pretty good i just hate fernet. never had malort. jenever is probably my least favorite hard liquor. the one with a dove on it. mostly consume KSBWs and natty light.

[Anonymous No.17609604]

>>17609593
projecting much, anon?

[Anonymous No.17609605]

>>17609570
based faulkner poster

get some borges in you boy

[Anonymous No.17609679]

>>17609600
Fernet is just a left over from my days in the industry. All the hazing after shifts got me hooked. Now it’s just kinda a funny shibboleth.

[Anonymous No.17609709]

[Anonymous No.17609715]

>>17609604
no but im sure you'd like to think so

>>17609679
pretty comfy ngl hope your livers okay later on

[Anonymous No.17609722]

>>17609709
gibbon is shit, throw him away unless you're a historian of historians.

otherwise 100% shelf. you're a smart young man with a pretty cat.

[Anonymous No.17609872]

>>17609715
nah, I'm just wondering where you got such a precise yet incorrect description from. sounded like you were speaking from experience

[Anonymous No.17609937]

>>17609709

> David Irving

Based

[Anonymous No.17609954]

Isn't the best bookshelf, but eh

[Anonymous No.17609994]

>>17609715
Hard to find it in stores besides the mega liquor places so I haven’t had it since the pandemic started. Not worth it lol.

[Anonymous No.17610069]

>>17609954
I like what I see anon

[Anonymous No.17610080]

>>17609954
nice shelf anon. the books are good too. except hegel. guy is a lit meme that needs to die already.

[Anonymous No.17610258]

Fukken omos

[Anonymous No.17610624]

>>17599462
>that jannu section
Based

[Anonymous No.17610649]

>>17609954
did you read all of gibbon? If so how enjoyable was it, and how long did it take you to read all of it?

[Anonymous No.17611004]

From September - now. I don't really know what this says about me, besides the fact that I don't like to read entire books made from some drug addict's esoteric philosophical ramblings to relax. However, my reading time is truly /comfy/ even if some weren't great desu

[Anonymous No.17611267]

>>17611004
Wrong thread m8

[Anonymous No.17611495]

>>17599228
Basically all books in French are usually just white except the cover which is usually a royalty free image.

[Anonymous No.17611717]

>>17610649
Haven't gotten into it, simply put. I only purchased it semi-recently, as a matter of fact

[Anonymous No.17611738]

>>17598478

[Anonymous No.17611749]

>>17611738
Nice history selection, my man.

[Anonymous No.17611758]

>>17598478
You're a virgin

[Anonymous No.17611965]

>>17609954
one of the only other good ones here

[Anonymous No.17612021]

>>17599444
What is that Dosto publisher? Not Everyman's, the other one.

[Anonymous No.17612042]

>>17612021
vintage classics. i have some of those too

[Anonymous No.17612093]

>>17612021
vintage classics as >>17612042 said. I like their cover designs

[Anonymous No.17612098]

>>17598653
is parallel stories good?

[Anonymous No.17612109]

>>17598844
not op but ice trilogy is fantastic, big fan.

[Anonymous No.17612116]

>>17598478
>>>/soc/

[Anonymous No.17612222]

Forgot to post my non fiction shelf.

But I also have like 4 other places I keep books, wish I had a nice giant ass shelf like some of the anons have here. Anyone looked into how much turning a whole wall into a book case costs? Would that be a very hard project?

[Anonymous No.17612321]

>>17612222
> non fiction

Anon, your books goes to the trash bin.

[Anonymous No.17612733]

[Anonymous No.17612795]

>>17601621
How is "the two ways?"

[Anonymous No.17612894]

[Anonymous No.17612954]

>>17612321
It doesn’t include my philosophy section or the other piles of books lying around. :(

[Anonymous No.17613237]

>>17612894
>(((Kaufman))) (((Silverstein)))
>untouched PM
>Stephen King book

[Anonymous No.17613244]

Here's mine.

Colour code:
>Green = I have read through it fully.
>Yellow = I have used excerpts from it for work/research/class etc.
>Blue = I am "currently" reading it (i.e., I have looked at it in the last month or so).
>Red = I have never read the book, not even enough to summarize it.

Sorry for the schizo picture; I have these in several shelves throughout my apartment and it's not very orderly but I didn't want to post ten separate images.

Not pictured: first two volumes of the Evangelion manga (green, blue), Tony Takezaki's Evangelion (blue), the first Evangelion ANIMA book (blue), The Noteniki Memoirs (red), Richard Evans's Third Reich Trilogy (yellow, yellow, yellow), the Oxford Handbook on Eugenics (yellow), and something else that I'm forgetting that I'm currently using as a secondary computer stand.

A lot of these are library, yes. Uni.

Yeah there's cringey stuff in here, intro philosophy BS and a whole host of leftie shit. Some of them were gifts and others I've bought to eventually read.

Fire away.

[Anonymous No.17613329]

>>17613244
Gay

[Anonymous No.17613509]

>>17612733
>KJV Bible with Jerusalem Cross

[Anonymous No.17613538]

>>17612093
>>17612042
Thanks, lads

[Anonymous No.17613688]

>>17611738
>Beevor

[Anonymous No.17613947]

>>17602306
Based. Aku no hana is patrician.

[Anonymous No.17614195]

>>17600459
>Sandersonfag

The kindle is fine. The issue is that you're reading The Stormlight Archive lol

[Anonymous No.17614738]

>>17600031
its the guy with the ancient mein kampf

those are some cute mushrooms

[Anonymous No.17614757]

>>17608712
just admit you got bullied in school anon.

>>17609937
>David Irving
>Based
I wouldn't bother with David Irving, he's been catch lying a few times, wouldn't trust what he says.

[Anonymous No.17614764]

>>17611004
Blitzed is a good book, but Norman comes to some silly conclusion.
I like Trump, but I wouldn't bother reading his book. It normie dribble he probably didn't even write.

[Anonymous No.17614766]

>>17614757
>>17614757
>I wouldn't bother with David Irving, he's been catch lying a few times, wouldn't trust what he says.
I doubt that, but he did prove many of his mainstream detractors also lied so... you're telling us not to read the mainstream equivalent either I take it?

[Anonymous No.17614768]

>>17611965
wow so many books, that must get you a lot of pussy.

[Anonymous No.17614772]

>>17613688
Do you not like Beevor?

[Anonymous No.17614776]

>>17614766
Ye I see what your saying, I guess its not a reason to rule him out exclusively, but I'd rather read more Beevor than bother looking at Irving

[Anonymous No.17614789]

>>17614766
>he did prove many of his mainstream detractors also lied so
where can i read this?

[Anonymous No.17614858]

>>17599233
ok zoomer

[Anonymous No.17614865]

>>17611738
Beevor's Stalingrad is trash, he doesn't even mention key people from the battle.

[Anonymous No.17614998]

>>17613688
What's wrong with Beevor?

[Anonymous No.17615490]

>>17614998
Nothing
Homo

[Anonymous No.17615782]

1/2

[Anonymous No.17615794]

>>17615782
2/2

[Anonymous No.17616585]

>>17600455
jesus fucking christ I think I want to marry you anon.

[Anonymous No.17616625]

>>17614776
Why not read both? There's nothing more inherently wrong with Irving than with any other.
>>17614789
I'm not sure if he himself wrote about it but look up the court cases. The people from CODOH also wrote about it but they're biased of course so take that with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous No.17616636]

>>17613947
yeah I finally got time to read them now that exams are over. I absolutely loved the anime. Can't wait to read chi no wadachi as well

[Anonymous No.17616672]

>>17600365
>yes i have seen se7en
kek what did you think of john doe?

[Anonymous No.17616740]

Anyone else separate their ‘have read’ shelf from their ‘to read’ shelf so you can more easily lend books out you don’t care about anymore?

[Anonymous No.17616951]

Tfw fall for meme books

[Anonymous No.17616976]

>>17616951
We all do sometimes, but that's actually a pretty decent shelf anon, I could live with that

[Anonymous No.17616977]

>>17616951
I think you are probably quite difficult to be around.

[Anonymous No.17617060]

>>17616976
Thx fren
>>17616977
Yeah probably

>>17611738
That is a nice looking Upanishads set
>>17612733
Based mystic

[Anonymous No.17617135]

>>17603752
Freshman CS major who's "into politics" and thinks that reading WSJ and the NYT gives him a diverse range of perspectives.

[Anonymous No.17617438]

>>17614738
>those are some cute mushrooms

Cute, but poisonous. Beware of the fungi-jew.

[Anonymous No.17617516]

>>17598478
Be nice

[Anonymous No.17617533]

>>17617516
Very nice collection anon

[Anonymous No.17617620]

>>17617516
translations lmao

[Anonymous No.17617689]

>>17617620
Ah yes I too am a big brain whomst is fluent in Homeric and ancient Greek, Russian, Spanish, 14th century Italian, and Danish.

[Anonymous No.17617777]

>>17598478
The Iliad is off the shelf because I'm reading it.

[Anonymous No.17617802]

>>17617777
CHECKED

[Anonymous No.17617926]

>>17616951
>anti-tech lit
>code monkey
why do u hate yourself like that

[Anonymous No.17617928]

>>17617689
Stop lying

[Anonymous No.17617954]

>>17617926
Projection
Most of the muh tedpill crowd are addicted to electronic devices and porn

[Anonymous No.17618039]

>>17617926
>>17617954
Yeah I hate being dependent on technology and am trying to reduce my addiction to technology, got my CS degree before becoming woke on the tech question. Sucks but I have no other good marketable skills unless I save up enough to go off grid.

[Anonymous No.17618325]

>>17617777
Based quads

[Anonymous No.17618400]

>>17598975
whats that thick nietzsche book?

[Anonymous No.17618458]

>>17618400
Not him, but that is The Portable Nietzsche. It has Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and a bunch of excerpts/letters.

[Anonymous No.17618609]

>>17618458
thanks anon