/fa/ Books

[Anonymous No.13654184]

Not books about fashion, but aesthetic books to fill a home with.

[Anonymous No.13654300]

Bumping because knowledge is power.

[Anonymous No.13654393]

>>13654184
Are you looking for actually effay books or are you just after aesthetic covers?

[Anonymous No.13654409]

>>13654393

Perhaps a bit of both. I wouldn't mind if a guest leafed through some of them and was able to hold a bit of interest. Give me all you got

[Anonymous No.13654410]

>>13654184
The most aesthetic books are a shelf full of random, high quality work that have obviously been read a few times.

Nothing is less aesthetic than a shelf full of pristine books that have clearly been bought to make a statement

[Anonymous No.13654427]

>>13654409
100 years of solitude is quite /fa/
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas as well and the cover is UV reactive if you're into that fancy shit
But basically what >>13654410 said, there is no thing less /fa/ than buying books for decoration purposes. Just get some that you actually want to read

[Anonymous No.13654430]

[Anonymous No.13654431]

>>13654410
>>13654427

I completely agree and I have a nice collection of old used books that I've read or have been meaning to read. However, I wanted to add to my collection and was wondering where a good place to start might be.

[Anonymous No.13654440]

>>13654431
You like a certain artist or musician? get a book on them. You like certain architectural styles, or have interesting hobbies? Buy some books on those.

The point is that the books should show off your personality. Try and make a list of people and things you're interested in, and look for some effay books on those subjects. It will fill the room with good books as well as make you want to read them.
Additionally, if one of your guests is interested in it, you know that you have something in common to discuss.
If you have certain authors you like, look on ebay for original copies or vintage covers. For instance, pic related is Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut. If you google the book, you'll see the modern cover, but the original is so much cooler.

Hope this helps get you started.

[Anonymous No.13654445]

>>13654440
by ebay, i mean any place that sells vintage books. Hell, check out some local vintage book stores if you have any. Most cities have at least one little spot still selling used books.

[Anonymous No.13654475]

Just go look at what all the folks on /lit/ are reading right now. If you haven't got the time or energy to click over there, it's Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.13654555]

>>13654184
>not even into /lit/ but just a pretentious /lit/ faggot
why

[Anonymous No.13654596]

pic related is the only answer

anything else is obsolete baggage/furniture

[Anonymous No.13654645]

>>13654555
Currently getting back into literature atm. This is the only board I use on this japanese basket-weaving site. Can you induct me on to that board. It looks like a bunch of autists posturing by reading age-old Greek books that I have no interest in.

[Anonymous No.13654659]

>>13654645
>>13654475
Sorry wrong reply

>>13654596
Stop supporting Amazon. Get a Kobo.

[Anonymous No.13656324]

>>13654475
They're STILL reading Infinite Jest? Jesus Christ it's been a while since I read that book. Forgot about it. Good read though

[Anonymous No.13656371]

best $20 ive ever spent

[Anonymous No.13656605]

https://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/koenig2/index.php?mode=start

[Anonymous No.13656609]

>>13654410
oh fuck off

>>13654184
>posts books about fashion

kys
preferably with a pile of books

[Anonymous No.13656611]

>>13656371
/thread

[Anonymous No.13656612]

>>13656611
really because the book signals undergrad philistine to me

[Anonymous No.13656628]

[Anonymous No.13656748]

>>13656612
>IT WAS HIS MONEYGRAB TO FEED HIS FAMILY
>IT WAS HACKY
t. /lit/izen that has no appreciation for Balano and uses canned critiques to look sophisticated

[Anonymous No.13656796]

>>13656748
its the same banal middlebrow writing as franzen and the only reason he might not get thrown in with similar people is his 'exotic' factor

[Anonymous No.13656809]

>>13656796
Oh look more canned critiques to look sophisticated
Is Consider the Lobster your favorite DFW work because IJ is too Banal, Middlebrow and stinking of undergrad phillistine to you too Mr Rembrandt?
Have you considered that less than 1% of the population reads a book a year?
Is Los Detectivos Salvages not worthy of praise? Or Amulet? Or Distant Star?
2666 isn't his magnum opus but it's enjoyable literature in the style of a talent
Do you hate Mishima's Sailor because /lit/ retards like it too?

[Anonymous No.13656810]

>>13654184
GRAIL

[Anonymous No.13656820]

>>13656810
As a bachelor, this is a must.

[Anonymous No.13656822]

>>13656810
>>13656820
Bottega is coffee table book in intrecciato leather, second must.

[Anonymous No.13656824]

>>13656810
>>13656820
>>13656822
Generic, yet so opulent.

[Anonymous No.13656828]

>>13656809
i wouldnt read wallace
the point is looking fashionable and displaying bolano is akin to having a film collection filled with paul thomas anderson
at least leave a sebald book laying around if the point is to show you follow contemporary trends and at the same time arent a complete idiot

[Anonymous No.13656831]

>>13656828
I hope you're a beautiful woman with great taste and a tight ass but I'm envisioning an overweight mexican intellectual snearing down his gafas at me

[Anonymous No.13656834]

>>13656809
Why are you arguing with a hipster? He's denouncing work with an air of superiority and no real criticism because doing so allows him to feel on the same level or above that of the authors.

Guy will probably never create anything worth glancing at in his life, you should ignore people like that. Not to say criticisms can't be legitimate, but that person's are the condescending with no real substance type that should be ignored. I've never read the book you two are on about, but I've seen other anon's 'type' hundreds of times.

[Anonymous No.13657092]

>>13656820
>>13656822
>>13656824
Are these any good to read?
Or are they decorations?

[Anonymous No.13657098]

>>13657092
I doubt they have any words at all

[Anonymous No.13657169]

>>13657092
Coffee table books for people that have 5-figure coffee tables. Don't bother if you're next question is "how much?".

[Anonymous No.13657172]

>>13657092
Coffee table books for people that have 5-figure coffee tables. Don't bother if your next question is "how much?".

[Anonymous No.13657254]

>>13657172
how gay are you?

[Anonymous No.13657279]

>>13654427
>100 years of solitude
nice book, would recommend.

a bit normie, but I enjoyed it:
Camus - the stranger
For a Camus book it's very easy to read, almost like a modern novel. It's about a guy whose mother died and he has to leave the town where he lives at to visit her burial. He lives in the town for a couple of weeks get's in contact with some people, but doesn't seem to be interested in anything really. He just lives, but doesn't really care about anything.
His disinterest leads to a pretty intense climax, that I don't want to spoil. My description is pretty shitty, but if you've haven't read the book, go for it. It's pretty cheap, even with a hard cover, as it's fairly short.

if you're into science fiction or liked the Stalker games:
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, enjoyable to read, nice cover. Not really related to stalker though, there are just inspirational ties, as the book is from the 70s, before chernobyl happened.

if you're into edgy and weird shit:
Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
very abstract and surreal, it's mostly about an evil being that rambles about animals and nature, despises mankind, and tortures people. It's not really fun to read, but unlike everything else I've read before. Also it's seems to be an big influence on the surrealistic and dadaistic art.

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town - Bukowski
A collection of some of his short stories, I've read a couple of his books when I was younger, but I've always preferred his short stories. This book containes some of my favorites, but you can buy any of his collections, as they are fairly cheap and well worth the price.

[Anonymous No.13657298]

just buy used books you want to read for £2 from ebay then read them retard

[Anonymous No.13657343]

>>13657279
>Camus - the stranger
also ya gotta read "the fall" by the same author, it's excellent

[Anonymous No.13657861]

>>13657343
I liked the fall too, but the writing style was kind of annoying for me. The whole monolog thing is a nice concept, but over the length of the book it was kind of tedious for me. But the story itself is great!

Another Camus recommendation is the plague:
it's set in a small french town in the 1940s that is confronted with an pest outbreak. It deals with the individual fates of some people who are trapped inside the town for various reasons and have to deal with the plague and it's consequences.
again my description isn't the best and sometimes it gets kind of boring for a couple of pages, but the first half is very well written and tense, then it slows down a bit. Last quarter is great again.

[Anonymous No.13657864]

>>13656609
He's right, do you have no taste? Any thinking person judges a person by their bookshelf, have you no third IQ digit? Hahaha

[Anonymous No.13657914]

i just have art/photo books, fuck /lit/
Taschen gang we out chea!!

[Anonymous No.13659246]

bumb

[Anonymous No.13659247]

>>13657298

omg this is one of the cringes shelves i've ever seen

how did you compile this? it's clear you can't think for yourself as half of those books are truly garbage

[Anonymous No.13659598]

>>13657172

Ok are they worth pirating at least?

[Anonymous No.13659890]

this cover looks rad

[Anonymous No.13659939]

>>13659247
wtf I hate my bookshelf now

[Anonymous No.13660609]

>>13659247
I bet you're lots of fun at parties