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I dont see a bookshelf thread so here it goes.

>> No.5119946

>>5119926
Muh drugs.

>> No.5119947

>>5119926
Oh god, would not make friends with you.

Also, you're probably skinny and weak 6/10 male.

>> No.5119967

is dis a repost or am i dejavu-ing?

>> No.5119999

lmao nice shades faggot

>> No.5120018

>>5119947
Jokes on you. Im 177 pounds. Squatting 255 and muay thaiyng the shit out of me. Would slap your gf's ass if you had one.

>> No.5120031

>>5119926
>buying books
>reading paper books

>> No.5120034

>>5120018
post exposed torso + timestamp (be sure to put /lit/ on the timestamp).

>> No.5120038

>>5120031

>posting on a thread
>greentexting

>> No.5120044

>>5120031
>being a faggot

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>>5119926
>paperbacks

>> No.5120583

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

>> No.5120624

>>5120583
A good book inspires you to read it multiple times, or at the very least for you to go back and consult favorite passages.

>> No.5120628

>>5120583
>>5120624
it's a Seinfeld quote big fella

>> No.5120631

>>5120583
"A house without books, is like a body without a soul." Cicero.

>> No.5120641

>>5120583
What do you need with all that Superman crap, Jerry?

>> No.5121913
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5121913

I have 2 bookshelves.

Y'all only get one

Albeit in 3 parts

Ps: I'm in my boxers but you fags frequent a sfw board, so no cock for those eager lips here. I've gotten banned before

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>>5121913

I'm pretty sure I both love and hate this board.

I also can't sleep and am trying to stop drinking.

>> No.5121940
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>>5121917

Also, what the fuck is wrong with you fags talking shit about tripfags in that other thread, feeding the off-topic low-quality cancer barrage?

Who gives a FUCK? I post a new trip about every day just to heat up you whiny vapid twats.

I also stopped smoking. So I'm irritable. Don't let that detract from what I'm saying. I mean it.

>> No.5121984

>>5120018
lol 255 you actually think that's impressive your a sad man

>> No.5121986

>>5121940
>I also stopped smoking. So I'm irritable. Don't let that detract from what I'm saying. I mean it.
when people say this kind of stuff on 4chan I'm reminded of an ingratiating 7th grader trying desperatley to be funny

>> No.5121995

>>5121986
Mostly because 4chan is full of 7th graders.

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>>5119926

you are not your bookshelf.

>> No.5122103

>>5121995

case in point:
>>5122073

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>>5122073
>he's still posting this bullshit about people's collections

>> No.5122123

>>5119947
dear god, who fucking cares?

>> No.5122131

>>5122073

but le rappy guy you have the biggest bookshelf collection in all of /lit/, maybe even 4chan.

>> No.5122232
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5122232

you ARE your bookshelf

>> No.5122246

>>5122073
finally let go huh

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>>5122246

well, you know--i turned 25 recently. some charades can only last so long.

i will point out, however, that i was always living in sin, not ignorance. i'm getting better at controlling my excessive self-delusion (I swear), but, i dunno, we'll see.

but enough about me. how have you been?

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>>5122273

>> No.5122317
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5122317

Just to be clear I only collect these to show to you guys every few weeks/months. I'm not some fucking nerd.

>> No.5122318

>>5119926
Serious question, did you enjoy drugs before books, or the other way round?

>> No.5122324

For the people posting their bookshelves, do not be disheartened by the plebeians that frequent this board, I enjoy seeing other peoples collections, and I'm sure other lurkers do as well.

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>>5122073
>>5122295

>biggest shelf whore on this board decides to stop and instead of going out quietly he becomes the nagging self-righteous poster against it

Everything about you is worm-like and desperate.

>> No.5122336

>>5121940
>>5121917
>>5121913
Are you literally JIDF?

>> No.5122351

>>5122273
>Food of the Gods
I got to the part about hashashins and then I left it in a classroom at uni and it was swiped. Same thing happened with Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell by Huxley at a call center job I had. Honestly I don't even care, the message should spread. I think stoned ape theory has some merit. Certainly it's not the defining characteristic of our advancement, but instilling a hallucinatory/questioning mindset has clearly been regarded as "spiritual" throughout cultures and time uncountable.

>> No.5122362

>>5122300
How is The Baron in the Trees? I loved If on a winter's night a traveler, but I haven't had the opportunity to read anything else by Italo Calvino. I really want to get Invisible Cities and Cosmicomics but honestly that book was so beautiful I imagine most things he writes are grand?

>> No.5122372

>>5122351
i agree

>> No.5122378

>>5122362

Get Invisible Cities, it is absolutely one of the greatest books I have read.

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>>5122329

that's probably fair. do you know what's odd about being a narcissist? every time you believe you make some progress, it automatically sublimates into a source of yet more pride: "look how good i am at self-control---surely i'm great at controlling my greatest flaws"--and this all resumes the same tired egoism. the strain sets in; the insecurity foments--i'm not sure, it blurs into action. what can i say? i am not sure how to get out of my particular cycle; i'm also addicted to drugs, and i say: "without drugs--well, it's then that all will be different!" as though my problems are reducible to narcotics, when really that's just the consequence of deeper flaws. how does any man become something they are not? i have always felt that i was built differently; that is, lacking the same in-built moral compass that is so fucking valuable in this world. in me, something is a bit askew--must every time i try to make genuine human self-progress be shadowed by the very faults from which i am trying to escape?

what are your flaws? are you a better person than i am--earnestly?

>> No.5122468

>>5122379

Made a post for this and then deleted it.

Was a bit too harsh because the points you are making here are pretty well-thought.

At least you're putting the lens in on yourself.

Just stop it will all this "oh I've outgrown it" while you still use Fight Club memes. Lame.

>> No.5122471

>>5120018
>Im 177 pounds. Squatting 255

Wtf. I'm 155 and squatting 250, 4x5. You aren't slapping anybody's ass.

>> No.5122472

>>5122379
>>5122468
What a fucking gay parade

Could you please save all the confessional gushing therapy shit for real life where someone is at least obliged to care

>> No.5122478

>>5122472

This is a literature board.

You're trying to act like a tough cunt on a literature board.

Think about that for a second.

>> No.5122482

>>5122478
I'm not trying to act like anything I just dont want to read this garbage
>Australians

>> No.5122489

>>5122482

>I'm not trying to act like anything

Sure, son.

>> No.5122558

>>5119926
>gurdjeff

pls

>> No.5122755

>>5119926
So how is Larousse Gastronomique?
I've been wanting to purchase it for a while but $70 is quite a lot for a second hand book.
Are the recipes genuine or are the short cuts?

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>>5121986
Ad hominem

>>5122324
Thanks, Jesus.

>>5122336
Grew up a Jew. I still find value in the system.

>>5122379
I'm absolutely not. Giving up drugs sucks. I only give them up saying "I don't need this shot today", then tomorrow. Day at a time. But I still love 'em.

To me it's indicative of a lack of goal/direction. I become anxious doing nothing, so I do drugs, read, play videogames, etc, all in binge mode. Give yourself a project.


Okay, here are more of my libros. I keep most of my fiction separate.

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>>5123033

Muh childhood and etc.

>> No.5123044

>>5123033
you are incredibly irritating

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>>5122273
pls ;-;

>> No.5123236

>>5123044
Ur uh fayg

How about attempting to form and express a cogent thought.

>> No.5123277

>>5123236
no ur fag

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>tfw 3rd world

>> No.5124023

>>5123366
Heeyyyy we have similar taste in fiction.

>> No.5124057

>>5122073

I was before i bought those books

>>5122318
Experimentation with substances brought me to all of these books.

>>5122471
I was lying. Just weighted in 159 pounds i still deadlift 380

>>5122558
One doesnt hurt

>>5122755
Larousse is near perfect man, recipes are straight up genuine legit shit.
Have you found any other book as extensive as this?


>>5123512
I feel you man.
Btw we call them "countries in development"


>>5121984
Not impressive at all. Not implying anything i can still kickbox your ass.

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5124073

Mine needs updating and I need a new shelf.

1/5

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>>5124073

2/5

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>>5124093

3/5

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5124119

>tfw not a real shelf
>tfw not a real book collection
>tfw shitty picture

look i still posted it

>> No.5124125

>>5124119

I can dig it.

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>>5124119

Why not just grab a couple cinder blocks from a construction site and make your own?

4/5

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5124140

The camera I used was a nightmare to deal with, and it cut off 25% off of each image for some reason so not all books are shown. 1/3, top shelf

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5124146

>>5124140
bottom shelf 2/3

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>>5124146
Extra books 3/3
Might take another pic of books the camera cut off. I got all the books in my collection for about 55 euro total.

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>>5124140

How's The Women in White? I got it but I own the Oxford World's Classic edition.

5/5

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>>5124119
follow up,

wanted to show some of the more interesting covers
from left to right, books are from 1964, 1900, 1894

>> No.5124194

>>5124169

Where are you from?

What languages do you read/write in?

Do you prefer one to the other?

>> No.5124197

>>5124194
america

english

>> No.5124202

>>5124197

ahh, some of the script looked Cyrillic

>> No.5124228
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>>5124167
I haven't read it, sorry. The actual design is very nice though.
>>5124159
Rest of the books

>> No.5124229

>>5124194
I'm from the US, I prefer English as it's my first language, but I can read/write Russian because I study Russian literature.
>>5124197
was basically on point

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>>5123366
You give those library books back right now

>> No.5124414

>>5124093
I also got a bunch of the red-spine Vintage paperbacks. Is it with yours too that when you touch the print somehow it easily smears? I hate that. Also the plastic covering the cover sometimes goes off at the edges.

>> No.5124420

>>5124228
How did you like Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”? I started it just this afternoon…

>> No.5124444

>>5121913
>Xenocide
>No Speaker for the Dead, Enders' Game, Shadow of the Hedgemon.

>> No.5124456

>>5124420
I thought it was just ok. it dragged on a bit and it lacked the emotional impact I thought it would have. I much preferred The Remains of The Day.

>> No.5124466

>>5124113
I've considered buying the Harper edition of the odyssey because it's my favorite publisher. Is it any good?

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>>5124376
what are you going to do about it???

>> No.5124492

>>5124414

It's not the paper quality I have a problem with but the actual spines themselves, I hate how homogenous they look my shelf and wish the designer would've giving each book individuality but my Kafka complete short stories has a massive crack in it even though i've only picked it up twice to re-read a couple short stories.

>>5124466

It's translated by Lattimore so yes, get it immediately.

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>>5119926
>Jean-Paul Sartre

>> No.5124739

>>5124159
>Anonymous 07/11/14(Fri)15:26:55 No.51241
>moyes

>> No.5124790

>>5123512
What are those three green gilt covered books in the centre, presumably in French?

>> No.5124798

>>5124169
Exquisite :)

>> No.5124922

>>5124376
Actual owner of those library books. My English teacher gave them to me because they were otherwise going to be thrown out. They're real nice copies too

>> No.5124928

>>5124489
Actual owner of this library book here

i bought both volumes from the union for ~12 pounds

>> No.5124942
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5124942

my shelve is full so I borrowed a table.
and now, my table is a total mess.

>> No.5124945

>>5119926
been eying the psychoactive plant encyclopedia for awhile. I too have my own little drug book library. Fun hobby of mine.

Just found an out-of-print book about the history of cocaine I've been looking for. I've never even done cocaine but drugs in general are interesting to me.

>> No.5124956

>>5124790
they're in portuguese, complete works by Machado de Assis

>> No.5124960

>>5122351
Food of the Gods is crazy and ridiculous and McKenna hardly backs up his central thesis.

I still liked it

>> No.5125544

>>5119926
maaannnnnnnn, this thread makes me want a nice bookshelf. Instead I have an e-reader. I prefer the bookshelf aesthetic though, and I prefer the book aesthetic as well. Like, reading an old book and dog-earing a page exactly where someone else has before. There's something nice about that.

[... but my e-reader lets me be a freeloading, pirating, artist-stealing, lazy-assed, immoral, scummy-scum-scumbag. It also has a backlight]

>> No.5125918

why are copies of mason & dixon so much bigger than gravity's rainbow even though they're roughly the same length?

>> No.5125935

>>5124960
> Food of the Gods

McKenna is one crazy ass hippie, but theres some interesting anthropological history in it. Fun read, but his conclusions are…weakly supported.

>> No.5125948

>>5125918
physical aesthetics

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>> No.5126325
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5126325

You are not your bookshelf.

>> No.5126339

>>5126325
That's a fair opinion and I respect it completely. Have a good one!

>> No.5126413

>>5123033
well, what if my project was to read as much as possible?
Do I lack ambition according to society's standards? Or is it a good goal to pursue in life?

>> No.5126536

>>5122273
>Marquis de Sade

yuck

>> No.5126543

>>5126536
yeah i didnt particularly like it either

>> No.5126550

>>5126543
>>5126536
Some monks go around and shit on a young girl's face, what's not to like

>> No.5126551

>>5126550
shock value doesnt work post internet

>> No.5126556
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5126556

Combined some so there's less of a picture span. Still, 1/9, from a couple of months back.

>> No.5126557

>>5126550
>>5126551
On a related note, I found this:

http://www.discogs.com/Jean-Louis-Costes-Plays-Marquis-De-Sade-Justine/release/3651939

>Track 11: Justine Raped By The Pedophile
>Loss Of Semen
>Sade Is Sick

God damn I want to listen to this album

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>>5126556

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>>5126561

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>>5126564

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>>5126568

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>>5126575

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>>5126582

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>>5126584

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>>5126592
9/9

>> No.5126598

>>5126592
>spines aren't even broke
what a faggot.

>> No.5126602

>>5126598
That's a weird picture to say that on, seeing as almost every spine there is very visibly broken. Pretty sure The Magus and the Mina Loy are the only two that aren't.

>> No.5126611

>>5126602
not even close

>> No.5126627

>>5126594
Nice collection.

>> No.5126990

>>5124169
You read lermontov? translated or original?
Ruskiy?

>> No.5127012

>>5126575
Nice Mishima collection, have you read them all?

>> No.5127813

why do so many people in these threads have only 1 or 2 of the sea of fertility series? read them all you fags

>> No.5127841

>>5126594
Very handsome collection. What's your interest in Japan in comparison to other subjects? I was under the impression you were a scholar.

Nice Tale of Genji, Mahfouz, Latin American writers, Greeks and Penguin edition classics.

>> No.5127885

>>5126413

It's a fair goal. Any goal is fair.

Just don't let you destroy yourself before your goal's completion. Unless your goal is to leave your goal incomplete

>> No.5127893

>>5124444

see

>>5123033


Xenocide is another guy's book, so I keep it separate from my own Ender/Bean stuff.

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>>5126990
>>5124229
plus it's got pictures which helps keep young people like myself interested

>> No.5127985

>>5126557
He's a pretty interesting person. Edgy as fuck but if you can understand french, try to listen or read interviews.

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>>5126194

>> No.5130167

>>5126598
None of my spines are broken. I attribute it to the fact that I'm not a retard cunt who can't handle a book with care.

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Please, dont bully.

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>>5130283

preparing to bully

>> No.5130341

>the great majority of books with intact spines
>every picture, every thread, ever

do they think we don't notice or something?

>> No.5130344

>>5130341
>not treating your books better than you would a newborn baby.
Dawg I peek into my books at uncomfortable angles to avoid cracking the spine. Cracked spines and paper covers that don't close all the way make my 4chan diagnosed autism flare up like no tomorrow.

>> No.5130350

>>5130344
I love you and I think you're doing a good thing.

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>>5130350
I love you too, anon!

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here is bookshelf no.1 (books in a series and comics/manga)

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>>5130427
bookshelf no. 2 (standalone fiction books and non fiction up the top)

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>>5130427
>>5130429
and final bookshelf no. 3 (rest of my non-fiction which is mainly visual guides and entertainment/biographies)

>> No.5130444

>>5130283
¿De donde eres amigo?
Elfen Lied es una gran serie.
La carretera me gustó.

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>>5130427
>>5130429
>>5130432
oh and current reading pile, first three books up top i've already read

(my first pkd book)

>> No.5130456

wish more people browsed /lit/

>> No.5130457

>>5130446
is Persepolis worth reading? It sounds like a fun book.

>> No.5130461

>>5130457
I'm really enjoying it, more than Maus to be honest. If you're into history and social issues being addressed through the graphic novel medium, then yes give it a go!

It is quite depressing at times, like Maus, so be warned.

>> No.5130463

>>5130457
not sure I would classify it as "fun". Unless you were joking.

>> No.5130464
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>>5130456
why
pic is from 1950s edition, if that couldn't be gathered from the spectacular turns of phrase

>> No.5130468

>>5130464
so we could get more convo's going and fresh threads/posts

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>> No.5130489

>>5130457
It's so so.

I guess it's worth reading just to help understand what it's like living in Iran. You learn a little bit about their history, their culture, and their religion. While it may not be a great story with amazing characters it does ring true at times.

>> No.5130492

>>5130486
I like your bottom shelf

>> No.5130846

>>5122317
Nice masturbation lotion.

>> No.5131147

Don't you have in murika the equivalent of "livre de poche" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Livre_de_poche)) ?

Most of the shelves pictures from this thread contain big-format books, which are surely expensive.

>> No.5131207

>>5120034
this is the gayest post i've read this day

>> No.5131225

why is /lit/ such a caricature? every book is infinite jest, ulysses, and pynchon. fucking retards reading as a status symbol

>> No.5131226

>>5131147

In australia we do, but rarely.

I also have a tiny print bible only useful under a magnifying glass, which is really just a bauble.

>> No.5131241

you faggots really have only like 1-2 shelves of books?

what the fuck are you doing on /lit/? I had 2 shelves when I was 8.

>> No.5131303

lol and i thought i was an average joe and not reading enough, i must have like 5 times more books than most guys here. give me a minute to take pictures.

>> No.5131340

>>5131303
>>5131241
>What's a library

>> No.5131342

>>5131241
post your shelves then, bitch nigger.

>> No.5131348

>>5131340
>being proud of poorfaggotry

why?

>> No.5131360

>>5131348
waiting

>> No.5131389

>>5120583
Writing in margins, rereading.

>> No.5131397

>>5131225
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vBpcSEdcRc

>> No.5131720

>>5131348
maybe because from a country where - unlike murika - being indebted isn't a bliss.

Also, what is the point to possess book when you can borrow them? It's not like if you needed all of them at the same time, you surely don't read them all at once.
(see >>5120583).

>> No.5132005

>>5123366
Is that version of Mason & Dixon any good?

I would very much like to see a photograph of one of the pages to see the font and print.

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>>5132005
I'm not that guy but here

>> No.5132029

>>5132024
Great.

>> No.5132064

>>5132024
:I i thought that was a finger for the longest time

>> No.5132069

>>5132064
#rekt

>> No.5132493

Are IKEA bookshelves worth copping?

>> No.5133024

>>5132493
No. Buy some oak lumber and build something yourself.

>> No.5133054

>>5132024
Never seen a chode before.

Thanks?

>> No.5134125

>>5126556
Two copies of a taste of japan?

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>>5124057
>internet tough guy on /lit/
>i was lying
sure is summer

>> No.5134720

>>5124093
All those uncracked spines.

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>>5134698
Bitching is a right. Summer is long gone in this part of the world.

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1/2

I have many more, these are just the ones I could take in my suitcase to my new place.
I have as many Spanish books as English books at my parent's.
>tfw no Cortázar at new place

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>>5135435
2/2

>> No.5135603

>>5135435
>>5135440
you're an international relations student aren't you

>> No.5135610

>>5135603
nope, a math major(hence the Abstract Algebra book and the others). im just very into history and political/economic philosophy. and the "world politics in a new era" was for a college prereq that i kept.

>> No.5136816

kinda ashamed to post mine with all the s. kings and genre fiction I was into few years ago

>> No.5136835

>>5136816

nothing wrong with genre fiction

so long as it's not ya fiction

>> No.5136872

>>5134125
I don't even know how I got the second, I only paid for one. But two showed up in my mailbox. Not complaining, I'll give it to someone or the library eventually.

>>5127841
I study comparative literature with Japanese lit as my major concentration, so it does make up about a fourth of my total collection. Almost everything I've bought since then has been Jap lit also (Midaregami by Akiko Yosano, some volumes on Kabuki, filled out the Soseki a bit more).

>> No.5136905

>>5120631
how the fuck could he have said that if books weren't even invented back then you spastic

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>>5119926

>> No.5137086

>>5119926
>Grof
>Lilly
>Gurdjieff

Hell yea bro

>> No.5138827

>>5135435
I wish I knew Spanish so I could read El Eternauta. I hope it gets translated someday.