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Bookshelf thread.

Except this is slightly ironic since I'm starting the thread with a Book-drawer. These are the only ones of my books that survived our basement being flooded ;_;

>> No.589217

:( more like lit style baww thread.


feels bad op

>> No.589219

>>589217
I'll get more books sooner or later. I've got these to keep me company until then.

>> No.589221

Sorry to hear about that OP. Seriously, that fucking sucks. ;_;

>> No.589228

non-Goethe Faust?

Why would you read such a thing?

>> No.589262

>>589221
No worries. They can be replaced.

>>589228
Some of the short stories in them are actually pretty awesome.

>> No.589272

>>589211

I have the same copy of Moby Dick that you have... Pretty cool.

>> No.589275

My sympathies. That sort of thing would totally shred my heart. I mean, I'm a total fag about my books. I put archival mylar on the dust jackets of all my hardbacks. My most prized book is a pristine copy of the 1949 Borden memorial edition of THE SHIP OF ISHTAR that once belonged to Forrest J Ackerman. I would . . . kill for it.

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589287

Oh hai.

>> No.589301

I'd post mine but about 20% or my books are in Danish, so no nerd cred

>> No.589304

>>589287
Have you read Haunted?

>> No.589305

>>589304

No. I think I've had my fill of Palahniuk. I only kind of enjoyed Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.

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589313

No nerd cred? Hans Christian Andersen was like the biggest nerd ever. And he annoyed the shit out of Dickens. Thought the guy would never leave. Course, he probably thought Chuck was kinda cute.

>> No.589315

>>589305
He is very strange, but i love his books.

>> No.589326

>>589313
alright, coming up

>> No.589329

>>589315

He's strange because he's gay.

>> No.589341

>>589329

Gay people suck.

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589353

starting with the boring dictionaries first

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>>589377
last one

sorry for the shitty quality, i only had my phone handy

>> No.589385

>>589287
Fucking Vladimir Tod makes me rage beyond belief. There is too much Mary Sue in that book.

>> No.589393

>>589380

Good sir, I appreciate your collection. It has a lot of things I think I would like that a lot of people would call "boring as shit".

>> No.589419

>>589385

Person who posted that pic here. I agree. I picked up the series because it sounded like a lighthearted and easy read. The level of cliche is almost unbearable at this point. In fact, I felt like throwing the last book at the end.

I'll pick up the last one just to see how it ends. Also, why have you read them? Not being accusatory, just curious.

>> No.589908

Bump.

>> No.590290

bamp

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590395

Fucking books.

Most of my others are packed away in boxes.

>>589380
>>589377

Decent collection. Some pretty influential books, and a nice amount of second hand goodness.

>> No.590396

>>590390
You have strange tastes in books. Anne Rice erotica next to young adult historical fiction next to memoirs, fantasy, and romance.

I do admire your Shakespeare bobblehead though.

one last thought... 'The Devil's Panties'?

>> No.590399

>>590396
It's a collection of Webcomic strips by Jennie Breedan. It's actually pretty funny.
Thanks, the bobblehead was a gift from a teacher.

>> No.590418

>>590390
Jesus christ, are you a fucking woman or what?

>> No.590439
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590439

These are a few of my favorite things...

>> No.590443

>>590418
No, I'm just very gay.

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>>590439
Flip over your Fahrenheit 451 man!

>> No.590449

>>590439
scifag with decent taste detected

>> No.590462

>>589373
Burmese Days....great book...read that together with 1984 and you've got a perfect picture of modern Burma...

>> No.590786

Bump.

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>>590439
You have a bad translation of the Aeneid, get Fitzgerald in there.

>> No.590819

>>590803
thats for losers.

take the original instead.

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590831

Starting from the top.

This is all the crap that can't fit in my shelves anymore, some graphic novels that are too tall, etc. Most of the novels here are ones I haven't gotten around to yet. Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Point Counter Point, and that Voltaire Collection, for example.

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590837

A bunch of graphic novels here. The entire Bone series, the Persepolis books, nothing too special.

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590839

A bunch of scifi on this shelf. Most of my PKD collection, and a few misc scifi books I've had since I was a kid. I can't even count how many times I've read The Illustrated Man.

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590841

I call this my "humor" section. I've grown out of taking Al Franken seriously as a political commentator, but I still find him funny. Also my John Hodgman books are here.

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1/7

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590845

A bunch of unsorted novels here.

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3/6

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The last shelf I filled. It has a bunch of biographies for some reason.

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2/6

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The shoebox full of comics I keep under the shelf, with my collection of official Dreamcast Magazines under that. Also my cat is here.

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5/6

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4/6

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6/6

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590866

Made this bookshelf last night. These are the only books worth showing that I own.

>> No.590868

I don't have a bookshelf. I use my old books for kindling (I'm poor as fuck).

>> No.590869

>>590866
>books worth showing
>I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

I mean, other than that, I don't disagree.

>> No.590871

>>590868
Why the fuck do you need kindling?

>> No.590876 [DELETED] 

>>590869
haha, my gf got it for me

>> No.590878

>>590868
people buy used books dude

>> No.590883

>>590871
My wood-stove, of course. A man needs some warmth.

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>>590395
>Atlas Shrugged

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590894

Am i the only one that prefer to put books on a horizontal plane? One on top of the other.
It just seems that heavies books will get damaged on the edges

>> No.590960

i only has digital books.

>> No.590984

>>590960
Digital books are fine for previewing a book before buying or for when you have no money at the moment or you wouldn't pay for that shit but still want to read it for a laugh or you've scoured the Earth for a book but can't find it.
In all other cases, go with a real book and look magnificent with a huge bookshelf and even post it on /lit/.

>> No.591000

>>590395

Politics or Philosophy student?

>> No.591001

>>590960
that would actually explain a lot

>> No.591016

>>590395
>Dianetics.
What.

>> No.591018

what I got from this thread:

most american editions offend me aesthetically.
(I am not judgen a book by its cover here, I merely judge the covers)

>> No.591391

>>590418
Yup. I'm a girl.

>> No.591397

I still cant figure out why US publishers make books whatever crazy dimensions they want, whereas most other countires stick to a few standard dimensions depending on the type of book it is.

>> No.591414

>>591397
i'm american and it pisses me off.

>> No.591432

>>591414

I move between USA and UK a lot so I have shelves that are half tidy, half crazy

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Blurry as fuck, I'll upload more specific images if people care.

The sections, anticlockwise from the top left, are: Mathematics/Science, Pelican books/Politics, Yugoslavia, Yugoslav wars, Yugoslav wars/History/World conflicts, Non-fiction/reference/exceptionally tall books, Islam/reference/Shakespeare, Computing, Poetry/Literature/Biographies, Fiction, Fiction, Unsorted.

Other shit is lying all over my desks and floor, mostly Mathematics and History books.

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A few are missing due to borrowers, but that's most of it.

inb4 people bitch about Ayn Rand.

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591569

It's a bit hard to see some of them so:
the green book near Inkdeath (I don't know where I put the other two in the trilogy) is "The Movement of English Prose".
The blue one to the right of that is "Zen & TAOMM".
Next along is "Between Time and Timbuktu", then "Doomsday 1999AD", then "Zen in the Art of Archery", then "For Whom the Bell Tolls", then "The Dream Tower" by David D. Sands (which is set in my local area but I can't find anything about it on the internet). Behind the "Buddhism" book is "The Social Contract", after the Buddhism book there's "Science in a Free Society" by Feyerabend. The red book at the end is "Reliable Knowledge" by Ziman.

>> No.591585

>>589287
You betta be trollin'.

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591588

Okay, starting from "Reliable Knowledge", there's "The Fellowship of the Ring", "Listen, Little Man!" by Wilhelm Reich, "School is Dead" by Everett Reimer, "The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster", "Principia Discordia", "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, "Life of Pi" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" with the new testament with psalms on top.

And I'm beginning to question the point of me posting the pictures if I have to list them all. Anyway...

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591612

This is my current to-read pile.
Bottom one is "The Silmarillion". Above "How Old Was Lolita?" is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Then there's selected poems of T.S. Elliot, four of Vonnegut's and "La Pharisienne".

>> No.591616

>>591588
you aren't very bright, are you?

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591621

My other to-read pile:
Bottom one is "Animal Physiology: Adaption and Environment". The thick read one is the Bible. The top one is "Lancashire Tales: Light and Dark".

>> No.591631

>>591616
No, sorry :( I like to read to compensate, lol.

>> No.591641

Ego stroking. How many of you have actually read all of the books you so proudly display? Yeah, I thought so.

>> No.591643

>>591641
Well, I've read the ones on my shelf, and not read the ones on my to-read pile. Simple.

>> No.591649

>>591621
yorkshire tales is better

>> No.591653

>>591649
What do those consist of? Finding oneself on boggy grassland missing one's headgear?

>> No.591654

>>591641
I've read about ~90% of my several hundred books.

>> No.591657

Do you live in Rhode Island by chance?

>> No.591661

>>591641

I've read all of them. Ego stroking, bah! Cup my balls you rube.

>> No.591674

>>591641
I've read all the books I own at least once except for the two I just bought.

>> No.591783

bump

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If I see that fucking Ayn Rand one more time...

>> No.591897

>>591856
If I'm seen fucking that Ayn Rand again...

>> No.591947

moar. I'm writing a list of books to get and I like to get ideas from others.

>> No.591967

>>591585


I'm not. Sorry. I just buy books that I can't find in the local library. I've read more than that, I promise.

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>>591585

Also, most of my money goes elsewhere, so I don't buy many books period.