/lit/ - Literature

I like videos like this. Very comfy. My books are in several small shelves spread out across my whole house. Eventually I'll get a big bookcase or two and display them properly.

I'm a /lit/ newbie. Here's a list of all my books, an extremely small amount but I am hoping that with my interests someone might be able to help and recommend me something else that I would like.
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Shantyboat - Harlan Hubbard
A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
The Unabridged Jack London - Jack London
The Homesteading Handbook - Abigail Gehring
I Am A Navy Seal Team Six Warrior - Howard E. Wasdin
The Holy Bible - King James Edition
The Complete Collection of William Shakespeare - William Shakespeare.

>>10927808
Sand County Almanac is gud. Try Walden, Jules Verne

>>10927808
joyce- dubliners

>>10927276
good grief
that guy has wasted his fucking life

That was comfy as fuck.

Old picture, but I'm lazy.

>>10928276
I hope to have wasted mine similarly, one day

>all those shelflets
You are all saddled by sadler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsLFSR_Y94

>>10928460
Why is Sadler so fucking cool?

>>10928463
due to the Knossos blood.

>>10928386
>IPA

>>10928386
>magic cards
>misc generic beer bottles
>messy as fuck room

You must be 18 or older to post here.

>>10927276

>>10928386
Don't celebrate alcohol

>>10928562
>he actually pays for loeb

>>10928562
You read all those green and lavender books?

>>10928573
the green ones are metaphysics and poetry and travelogue, the former i'm working through the latter get picked up when the mood strikes. the lanvender are more like an encyclopedia. i read 5-20 pages here and there when i need/want to look something up.

>>10927808
never heard of Gehring's book, I'll look into it. You might enjoy Falk's resilient farm and homestead, or the Reader's Digest back to basics.

>>10927808
/lit/ newbie as well. Here's some of mine, I got a few more left but don't have a book shelf and not enough room.
Also I'm starting to go to Goodwill more often now, I find a lot of nice cheap books there.

>>10928581
I'M THE CREME OF THE CROP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr0BljPKksM

>>10927276
owning stuff again? I thought better of you guys.

>>10928615
Nice.

>>10928276
Get out

>>10928561
>3 copies of Art of the Deal
For what purpose?

>>10928753
is meme u dip

>>10928276
Please tell me what is not a waste of life.

>>10927276
best shelf comin' thru

>>10928753
in case i want to read it more than once

>>10928615
Pure meme. Post your real shelf

>>10928561
>Stacking books sideways in front of other books

For what purpose?

>>10928973
eas of reach mixed with lack of space

>>10927276
If this is sideways imma be mad

>>10929629
I'm mad

>>10928886
Can you actually cook or did you just buy Escoffier because you're a preening cunt?

>>10929629
it's okay brother team creme salutes your post(s)
faggot

>>10929800
the escoffier was actually pretty cheap, retard, and i bought it because i was curious about turtle soup and other older recipes. and yes i can cook, i can turn a $10 cut of beef into a $200 steak. now fuck off and learn some manners somewhere, PB waste of space.

>>10928973
Because I don't have a lot of room

>>10928369
He’s a comfy guy

>>10931651
for you

>>10928615
Hey what's the cover to that version of Ulysses look like?

>>10927276

No one, I repeat, NO ONE who posts on /lit/ has read that much Hegel. OP is a massive flaming faggot of epic proportions. Have fun getting cucked by the Geist.

>>10928572
How else do you get them?

>>10929629
looks like a cool collection. wish I could see it better.

>>10928562
What publisher of the Organon is that?

>>10929629
rotated for you bro

>>10934544
it's just some inexpensive createspace edition someone put together in latex.

>>10934435
That is a picture of Sadler's bookshelf you dumb shitheel

>>10934680
Typical peanut nutter

>>10929942
I remember you from other threads, good to see you still around. I think I have a post saved of yours recommending one of those cookbooks actually.

>>10929942
In other words, yes, you are a preening cunt.

>>10927276
I'm partial to Wes Callihan's shelf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8PGchwuGA

>>10928753
Jackin off

>>10928562
Super glad you got those dictionaries. Have you found the entries to be useful? I can’t get over how substancial and interesting most entries are. I’m guessing that, with all those loeb’s, you’ve got enough Greek context to appreciate the research in the dictionaries

>>10935282
>spend $6 on an old hardcover cookbook
>oi ya preening cunt what arr ya

>>10934908
thanks my guy. yeh i can't find the image now but i was kind of hard on mallman. chamberlain's bouquet de france is still my fav for its recipes and description of postwar France. the art of fermentation is new, as i'm tipetoeing into gardening and preserving. it's a quality book on the level of mcgee's.

>>10935456
me too, thanks. i took the recommendation from someone here, maybe you. i've read several entries and have found them useful in studying early Christian ideas, but combining this with the uzdavinys runs the risk of becoming a heretical mystic. i haven't yet much found much use with them and the loebs, but i haven't properly looked through the index for greek concepts i want to compare usage with in the NT.

>>10935538
those shelves tho. respec for the vonnegut section.

>>10927276
Soy shelves though. Particle board furniture painted titanium white at the Ikea factory shoots beams of pure existential angst through my ocular openings directly into my brain, transmitting through my CNS to the immaterial aether where my soul becomes violently perturbed, lengthening my miserable duration in samsara.

I stack my books on my bare cement floor, if anyone was wondering

>>10935624
How avant garde

>>10929629
You seem motivated by the idea of being the kind of person that knows X. Drawn by the repulsion of others.

>>10928561
Owns the best possible way to watch Videodrome.

>>10928386
Obviously motivation is difficult, when it comes you are surprised with yourself and remember what brings you happiness.

>>10927276
I like the specificity of the contents of the shelf, but not the shelf itself. I'm not happy with my own, either.

>>10935732
Thanks for posting a thread where the book titles are easily readable

Hey anons. I got this second hand yesterday. Is this mold? Is it safe to store with my other books on the shelf? If not, what should I do with it?

>>10935802
its ok. its just old

>>10935802
I appears to have book hiv.

>>10935802
I wouldn't recommend eating it

>>10935732
I was getting kind of sleepy and going to go to bed soon but I just jolted awake at seeing Satoshi Kon's Opus.
I'm obsessed with his films and I actually didn't know he had quite the bibliography until right now.
Thank you for posting in this thread and bringing this to my attention, you've truly enriched my life in doing so. You go, anon.

>>10928753
It's simply that good.

>>10935802
Looks like foxing. Toss it.

>>10935814
Yeah, given a cursory google search it seems to resemble 'foxing'. Funnily enough almost all my books are second hand and none are foxed to this degree, if at all. The other concern is a blackish, spotty fuzz on a Bataille book I got - sold for normal price.
>>10935851
Does foxing spread? Shame, it was a bit of a catch.

>>10935859
No foxing doesn't spread. Don't listen to him.

>>10935863
fug, I'm becoming a book hypochondriac. I've never even given it a single thought until now. Now I'm looking over the pearl beauty of my shelf's pages like it's a fragile condition that needs protection.
I did find a moldy book once that was really disgusting. Huge white and green spots, thick to the touch, all over the book. It was pretty obvious and visually distinct from the brownish-reddish spots here.

I also live in Australia and the books are stored in an air-conditioned room near a window. These conditions shouldn't be conducive to mold growth, right?

>>10935732
>You seem motivated by the idea of being the kind of person that knows X. Drawn by the repulsion of others.

What did he mean by this?

>>10928562
Fuck off, nick.

>>10935916
If that didn't resonate with you, then I was off the mark. I got the vibe that cataloging repugnant or stranger things gave you a macabre joy. The kind a child might show by describing what it's like to eat different bugs, or in reviving neglected traditions.

>>10935964
adjust your tinfoil, nick

bump

>>10928572
If you're studying philosophy or classic then I can see why it's worth buying it also >trashman pls kys

>>10928572
>implying you didn't notice half of them have library sticker marks or appear used

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>>10929942
now now, mind your manners young man

>>10935802
remove it with fine grit sandpaper if you wish, assuming its not a rare copy

Don't have space for a real bookshelf desu, it's all shoved crappily like this.

1/2
Fiction and poetry, missing Paradise Lost and 120 Days of Sodom. I still haven't read 11 of these.

>>10939411
Religion and Philosophy, less of these are actually read because I'm half Phil major so I don't get a lot of time for reading philosophy I want to mid-semester. Missing John Locke and Berkely

>>10937805

Reminds me of a Humorous Mark Twain Anecdote

Apparently Twain had books piled up all over his house and a friend visited and said "why are they all just piled up like this?"
And Twain said "Well, it's so hard to ask to borrow the shelves."
:)

>>10939411
>SPQR by Mary Beard

You expect us to take this shelf seriously?

>>10939500
I'm not particularly interested in Roman history. SPQR is palatable and fun.

>>10927524

>>10939508
looks like you've been rejected by the pseuds, anon. congratulations.

>>10927276

That's a lot of Hegel. Otherwise seems a fine shelf with good solid durable editions. This is the shelf of a man who reads his books.

>>10927808

If you like robust adventuring, you could try:
>The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas (Thor Heyerdahl)

>>10939550

>>10939549
Thanks feels great

>>10928386
I like this shelf. I have bottles piled along the edges of the bookshelf next to my bed too. The only difference is they are mineral water bottles. I am a lightweight :(
If you like P J O'Rourke, have you tried Republican Party Reptile? Ferrari Refutes The Decline Of The West is one of his best pieces IMO.

>>10939569
god i wish i was that copy of the phenomenology

>>10928533
I take test and powerlift. You just have shit taste.

>>10928561
Good shelf here because the books look well-thumbed. Of course that might just mean you bought them second-hand but I'm guessing you do actually read your books. Well done, what are you doing on /lit/?

>>10939508
>yo the romans was black and shit

>>10928562
Hmm, a lot of books on Myths etc but no Golden Bough... I 'm guessing it's hiding just out of frame, the naughty little thing.

>>10928615
>The Legend Of The Ten Elemental Masters
haha what a fine title I just had to Google that

>>10928886
Solid, probably. I don't know since I am an innocent in the ways of the skillet and the chopping-board.

>>10934622

Well rotated sir. YOU'VE got the Golden Bough. You need to lend it to that other guy with a million Myth books but no Golden Bough. Manufacturing Consent is fairly high on my to-read list.

>>10935522
This is very neat - TOO neat. Are you an axe-murderer? Other than that, there are many fine books here. Oh - I just saw a big Sherlock Holmes. You can't be an axe-murderer. My apologies.

>>10935579
Is that the really early-edition Catch-22?

>>10935669
Posting a non-English-language bookshelf will intimidate /lit/ and you won't get any (you)s :( Life is harsh :(

>>10939441
Haha, if you put Nietzsche next to Zizek they would both spontaneously combust.
Actually if you put anything from the second shelf next to anything from the top shelf they would, too, haha :)

>>10939500
I quickly looked it up and she seems to have compressed most of Rome's history into one book. Is this the main criticism of the book? That it's less academic but more of a narrative?

>>10939571
das rite, Caesar was black Ethiopian royalty

>>10939579
>Republican Party Reptile

Haven't read it yet, honestly my politics have changed considerably over the last couple of years, but I bet it'll be worth a read for the nostalgia alone.

>>10939593
it's whispering secret things to Campbell's Masks of God, laying behind the Loebs and Jung and Freud.

>>10939609
cooking is one life's most satisfying activities anon, you should give it a try. and if you are >tfwnogf, showing a potential mate you can cook separates you from the virgins and chads and puts you squarely in adult territory.

>>10939666
i'm sure that's the problem with it here, on /lit, the home of the pseud. i wouldn't worry about it. if you're reading roman history for fun, SPQR is adequate. you don't HAVE to read primary sources in latin.

hail satan

>>10939784
see?

>inb4 why haven't you read hegel
because he's hard like diamonds and i can't tell if he's immediately relevant to understanding christianity and christian mysticism

>>10939666
She's a bit less trusting of classical sources and instead goes off the archaeological and scientific record. I think she also said something on Twitter about a Roman person being black, so the retards on 4chan don't like her

>>10939845
She made a dull and imprecise tribute to the orthodoxia of her era

>>10939845
she said something asinine to score points with the bug elites and the center and right castigated her for it, which she deserved entirely

>>10928386
That's a lot of wild turkey. Nice.

>>10929629
>Dune
Looks like a nice copy. Old?

>>10927524
https://youtu.be/qGfAfgmbyIs

>>10940380
is this what /lit/ posters look like?

I hate myself because i am a pseud and bought about 200 books from used bookstores when i decided to get into reading. classics plus /lit/ top 100 and some reddit shit.

Now I've had this collection for about 3 years and it's just a bunch of crap that doesn't reflect my own personal literary journey. I always end up buying new books because my interests differ from the crap I bought. Right now I'm into Jung (yes, because of Peterson), Evola, and things like that. Stuff you would never find in a used book store. I like the small collection of 8 or so books I have that all relate to this interest I developed in mythology, consciousness, etc. I feel like that small section on the shelf better reflects my tastes than the other 200 books I have.

>>10940569
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QJDINi9DhI

yes. this guy is /lit/ incarnate

>>10940380
is that you?

>>10940590
Huh, I sure hope I don't end up like you one day.

Fun fact: my book is on This shelf

>>10940591
reminds me of my druggie classmates. what a wreck, interesting to listen to though

>>10940380
>>10940591
what happened to this guy?

>>10940632
are you Kafka?

Just the one shelf since I'm at school.

>>10940818
>If I take the pic with my phone but upload with my pc surely it won't automatically flip the image

>>10940613
can you be more specific?

>>10940591
This guy seems legit cool but man his brain is totally fried. I'm glad I live in a foreign country where it's hard to get pills because I could've easily become just like that.

>>10940650
no clue. he was making horror films but he hasn't posted anything on any of his channels in over a year

>>10940848
>Gombrowicz's Diary
Always been interested in this - read any of it yet?

>>10939784
>not having your woman do it for you

fuck off, nick. that's some bonafide cuck shit. your gf sucks mad loads too, nigggga.

>>10940848
Great shelf. First time a shelf containing Herodotus has made me smile. Thanks. Cool correspondences.

>>10940955
I haven't read all of it but it's great. He's a fun personality in general, though he also offers quite a bit of literary criticism, and a look into the Argentinian salons (Borges, Ocampo, etc).
>>10940980
Thanks, anon.

>>10939548
>that's my secret, I'm always angry

>>10935522
It’s pretty but can’t tell what most of them are because of the low resolution.

>>10940848
>>10939441

>>10939411
I have the same boxed set of In Search of Lost Time, and it triggers my autism that the cover of Sodom and Gomorrah is noticeably darker than the rest of the set. At least it's comforting to know it is a manufacturing error.

>>10940632
the hardcover you are embarassed about

>>10940848
good lad

>>10941831
I'm not the guy posting. I can't figure out his book, but I'm fairly certain you're wrong.
If you mean the one next to Mythology by Edith Hamilton? Surely that one has got to be the Odyssey, it's the penguin edition translated by Fagles.

>>10927276
douglas murray - strange death of europe
jordan peterson - 12 rules for life
alexander solzhenitsyn - gulag archipelago
christopher browning - ordinary men
sun tzu - the art of war
aldous huxley - brave new world
george orwell - 1984
fyodor dostoyevsky - crime and punishment
erling kagge - silence
iris chang - the rape of nanking
viktor frankl - mans search for meaning

gimme recomendations.

i only just started reading so go easy on me please

>>10942668
edit/ i wanna read about the columbine bois, and other psychos

>>10928886
what are you fermenting right now? the threads on /ck/ are few and far inbetween

>>10941831
I believe its Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

>>10942668
Crime and Punishment, Man's Search for Meaning and Gulag Archipelago and the best books in that meme list. All of those books are pretty good though.

>>10942668
those are all good books, but people here are going to make fun of it for being entry level

try notes from underground after you read crime and punishment

>>10939441
good tho a little too much psychology

>>10942668
i haven't read any dostoyevsky yet, where is the best place to start?

>>10935732
I've got a black Nikon F on my shelf

>>10940632
Patrician as fuck. Nice blend of esoteric nonfic and top tier fiction. Let’s exchange emails

>>10940632
E-Evan?

>>10942868
Crime and Punishment, then Brothers K. Notes is really short but in my experience very complicated, so I'd read that after the former two and then read Demons.

>>10935522
repulsive

>>10942668
Animal farm. Road to Wigan pier. Main travelled roads. Hunger by knut hamsun. Then shock yourself into 21st c with Palahniuks Rant.

1/2 all my non textbook stuff

2/2 textbooks

>>10928386
Why display corner store-tier beer like Fat Tire and Alaskan? And why on a bookshelf? Are you trying to mold all your books?

>>10928561
I bet that 20000 Leagues is one of those butchered translations.

>>10927276
i just discovered this channel and it seems really nice, thank you for linking it. i didn't see anywhere any qualifications that he has to be talking about hegel and the other stuff. is he just an autist who is really, really into this stuff, like molyenuex or does he have at least a degree in the field?

i don't mean the comparison in a derogative way, but the enourmous investment in his youtube channel reminded me about molymeme

girlfriend kicked me out so now my shelf is just a stack

>>10944068
Basically I wanted to try every kind of beer available in my area, and the bookshelf was a convenient way to track the ones I found interesting.

Never had any issues with mold, it's not very humid where I live.

>>10944336
lmao she kicked you out because you're a pleb lol

>>10944336
>rupi kaur

What did I tell you kids about wasting your money on stacks of paper and trinkets and shelves then wasting your time to get them to look pretty and superior and then displaying your desperate need for approval on a Javanese Weeb Cosplayer forum?

>>10945015
>>10945036
>rupi kaur is not good, but I keep it for sentimental reasons (it was a gift from my)

>>10945015
what is so pleb about it?
got some recommendations for better books?

I probably need some philosophy and Greek shit to stand up to scrutiny here but w/e.

>>10940848
>Nicks Skeleton Key to Finnegans ake

>>10939411
Nicks Beards SPQR

>>10945699
>communist tripfag objectifying attractive white women to shill ereaders and leftist propaganda
W E W

i need to go back to >>>/pol/ for some redpills quick

>>10945008
That’s fair I guess. I usually only keep a bottle if its like 15 dollars or more, limited or rare. Mainly just saying there’s even better beer out there you should try.

>>10945753
I'm not shilling ereaders, Cole is. This is just a random stack she pulled out of that Waterstone for the shoot.

/pol/ only feeds you blue pills, fyi.

>>10939625
It’s easy to have a neat shelf when you care more about buying all the books in a publisher’s series than getting the best versions of each book.

>>10945883
>/pol/ only feeds you blue pills, fyi.
how's that?

>waterstones inventory
no wonder UK is how it presently do

anyway get my body back to the powerplant and you'll get your access codes

>>10945858
trappist/chimay/saison/stingo-bro!

>>10935732
>>10935669
>>10935579
>>10935522
>>10934622
>>10927276
How old are you guys?

>>10946644
20 something I assume most others are as well

>>10935579
>Good old porrúa.

btw. Esa versión de Fausto está completa? La versión de el pingüino dice tener 900+ páginas mietras que la coleeción de porrúa contiene 250+ páginas...

>>10946522
snapping a quick piccy to send to the girls on snapchat
good stuff

>>10934435
grugzek looks healthier than real life-zek

>>10944336
Læst Dante endnu? Fatter ikke italiensk selv, men det virker til at være en fin oversættelse. Det irriterer mig godt nok, at Meyer ikke er konsekvent ift. antal af stavelser i et ord (se s. 37). Meyers oversættelse er i forvejen ret prosa-agtig, så det gor den kun endnu sværere at læse op. Kober nok en oversættelse med rim næste gang.

>>10948143
ja, ved ikke hvordan den er at læse op men jeg synes den var helt fin, og så er historien fantastisk. læste den får et par år siden og så igen nogle måneder siden.

>>10945402
>reading Hitchens
>ever

Anon, what the fuck do you think you're doing?

>>10949205
what's so bad about him? His scathing take-downs of politicians and public figures are entertaining at least. I haven't read anything else by him.

>>10944336
>stealing your gf's copy of milk and honey

>>10940632
Homer?

One of these days I want a bookshelf of my own. I'm happy for you anons.

>>10949064
>han læser ikke poesi hojt
?
Tro mig, det er bedre. Forst folte jeg mig som en kæmpe krukke, da jeg læste hojt for mig, men nu kan jeg ikke forestille mig det anderledes.

>>10944336
>milk and honey

>>10945402
>uzumaki
>gyo
you must need pictures to read you're books you fucking brainlet

pic related: my shelf

>>10928034
>>10928059
>>10939563
>joyce-dubliners
>The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas
>Walden
Thanks for the suggestions, I've ordered them and they should arrive early next week.

Not a big reader but this is what I've been working with lately. Recommendations are very welcomed.

>>10950984
im sorry.

>>10951754
author?

>>10927808
if you liked old man and the sea, and you like war and outdoorsy shit, go to for whom the bell tolls

david foster wallace?
opinions?
why is infinite jest a meme?
i havent read it nor do i know what its about
where to start with dfw?

>>10951979
>david foster wallace?
An author I suppose
>opinions?
Reading in public isn't just an attentionseeking move
>why is infinite jest a meme?
It sounds funny and gives the appearance of an intellectual stimulating read but it's actually horrible and meant to trap newbs
>i havent read it nor do i know what its about
que?
>where to start with dfw?
3rd street and then get on a bus to Houston

>>10951979
Don't even waste time on him, so overrated. If you want an actual good post-modernist, read Pynchon or Gaddis.

>>10951979
It’s not a bad book but it’s been a meme for a long time, even before 4chan. It’s always been a joke that every pseudo intellectual college student has an unread copy of it.

>>10927276
Not sure if the book titles will be clear on this pic but let’s find out.

>>10953716
What's the diploma-looking thing in the upper right?

You have a beautiful home anon.

>>10953767
That's my family coat of arms. It says Edwards at the top and underneath "Heb Dduw Heb Ddim" which means 'Without God, without anything" in Welsh.

It's not a nice home but I've been building up a nice collection of quality items the last couple of years. I've got a small harp, a pianola and a katana but thats about it for quality items I'd pass on. I'm just a NEET living in my mothers garage lol. I bought all those books with autismbux payments.

>>10953716
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I wish everyone would organise their book shelves in nice, even patterns like this. My autism is triggered when I see bookshelves where there books are just randomly placed. Even worse when people put little tags for different genres like its a library book case.

This nice flowy pattern is very pleasing. I also have been improving on the quality of books I buy. I only get paperbacks if I cant find anything else or I'm not too keen on the book anyway.

>>10943893
very nice

>>10928561
You seem like too much of a right wing lemming lacking in originallity. I'm racist af but you just seem boring and generic.

>>10929629
>>10934622
I like you. You can be my friend.

>>10935522
This is embarrassing to look at. You bought all these modern editions of classics from meme publications. What is the company that made all those god awful covers on the top 3 shelves and why did you buy their entire catalog? This is as cringey as the anon who had an entire barnes and noble leatherbound collection... It looks cheap, tacky and shows you lack the intelligence and eye for beauty to realize you've amassed nothing but a stock standard warehouse pile of books that you don't even read or desire to read but bought just because you thought it would look good to own the entire collection of brand X.

All the rest of you are nothing. YOUR FUCKING NOTHING!

>>10953716
These are mine btw.

>>10953920
>All the rest of you are nothing. YOUR FUCKING NOTHING!
*You're.

>>10954071
you win...

I can never recover from this blunder. Goodbye forever, 4chan.

>>10935579
Your books a shit.

>>10928561
>The accessible Hegel

>>10928561
I seriously fucking hate paperback cucks. You're only thinking of yourself when you buy them. No thought of passing on knowledge to another generation. I buy books with the thought in mind that they will last alot longer than I will and that my descendants will benefit from the sacred wisdom passed down to them in the greatest works of mankind.

>>10954788
>duhhh paperback cucks, i buy books that last hardcuhvahs baybeee
so all your books are printed on cotton or archival paper? fucking idiot.

>>10954788
>I buy books with the thought in mind that they will last alot longer than I will and that my descendants will benefit from the sacred wisdom passed down to them in the greatest works of mankind
Imagine saying this in the age of the internet

>>10954812
not that anon but
>he thinks the internet isn't going to go down permanently in the next major crisis
>he thinks civilization will continue the way it has
>he isn't prepared for a return to a 1920s level semi-agrarian society set in the American wasteland in the 2050s
bro what are you doing with your life? depending on the cloud? on a power grid susceptible to cascade failure when yellowstone goes off? get real m8.

>>10954788
i have paperbacks from the 50s and 60s and they're still perfectly readable. they don't spontaneously combust after ten years

>>10950201
skal prove det

I’ve come to terms with the fact that /lit/ is a fucking joke. All you niggers read the same meme books or hipster shit that belongs in the dumpster. All your book collections look like shit next to mine and I only started reading seriously last year (owned about 10 books prior).

The source problem is that this site is 4chan so it’s full of disgusting people. It’s basically a site for porn and gore posting, even camwhore meet ups and drug hook ups. So of course this “community” is going to be the scum froth of the sewer.

I woke up thinking about how whites are so brainwashed into believing tribal loyalty is beyond evil and being a traitor is the default virtue that we deserve to suffer what’s coming. Just go on YouTube and watch a video of the modern day streets of Paris shot by people recording as they walk around. It’s quickly becoming an African/Arab slum. I can’t wait for the non white populations to outnumber whites so much that the whole system collapses and suddenly all the food and utilities are gone.

We could have gone to space and lived out the anime vision of hapa futurism but you brainwashed lemmings ruined it all. Bring on the collapse I say. Watch the niggers loot everything till there’s nothing left and they turn on each other for food. I’ll be far away in my mountain drinking spring water and cuddling my loli harem I won through being mentally and physically prepared to kill traitors.

My book collection is the nice float pattern on posted 14 or so hours ago btw. And this is my old doggo. He’s about 12.

>>10957046
Flowy*
Fucking phone.

>>10928562
>Girard
Fucking nice mate

>>10957046
Take your medicine and unplug your computer. Take that good boy for a walk.

>>10957206
Right?? Dudes the antidote for 21st c anguish.

>>10957046
>I only started reading seriously last year

Well, that's your problem, anon. Get gud.

>>10957046
does your mother know you speak this way?

>>10927808
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Light in August by William Faulkner
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

>>10957046
>dog owner
condition imparted

>>10928386
a fellow magician

>>10957046
edge

is that jason bourne

>>10928533
Fuck off, tastelett.

>>10934622
Why are you into gnosticism so much? My grandpa is a gnostic, but he's also a freemason and a flat-earther.

>>10959833
dunno if you mean me or the guy i rotated the pic for. gnosticism is neat. only the yazidis practice any form of it today afaik, so it's mostly a casualty of the church. it's fun to consider what could be the underlying psychological reasons for why its myths accreted the way they did, and what remnants of gnosticism remain with us.

as an example, the hebrew bible is a creation myth and a tribal chronicle and a book of law and prophecy, and the beginnings of a semitic moral philosophy. it's clear how this came to be: just like any other national epic, it is a product of its people. except we revere it in the west because it is associated with the new testament, which sits atop it and adopted its authority (not without some conflicting threads, and not all of those by mistake) to create christianity which led to a universal church. the NT is different in that, unlike the OT, it was specifically designed to be a philosophical work and to inherit the mythos and audience of the OT. the jews of course weren't having it, rejected christ as not their messiah, and that schism exists to this day.

gnosticism is interesting because as far as i can tell it was never designed the way christianity was. it's a separate tradition, like the hebrews, that had some turbulent effects against the early and medieval church.

>>10959860
>>10959910
How much did the Nag Hammadi scripts contribute to the gnostic agenda?

>>10959931
which agenda is that?

>>10935669
Son las ediciones de Aristoteles de porrúa buenas? Tengo los diálogos de platón con ellos pero no sé si valga la pena comprar otros más de Porrúa o ahorrar para una mejor edición

i mean... there is no gnostic agenda anymore. they were all killed. the sects that existed were in competition with what would become the catholic church. their various beliefs and practices were persecuted because, basically, the scholars of the time were examining the apostolic works and trying to get this jesus->christ narrative in order and a coherent doctrine all on the same page. plenty of gnostics may have gone underground and informed later cults, but i haven't gotten there yet.

actually i was reading that book about marcion a while back and ya boy got defaced but good out of history now that i think about it. he was iirc at odds with tertullian and them, especially on the nature of christ. a silly argument to have since nobody alive had witnessed it, but that's politics for you. he had similar ideas to some gnostics, for example.

>>10940591
moot had a hard life

>>10959933
I dunno, I guess meant the big picture. How big an impact did it have on gnosticism in general, say.

>>10942668
https://jordanbpeterson.com/books/book-list/
You've already got half of the books on Peterson's list but you might as well get all of them if you're into him atm.

>>10928562
>Book of Symbols
Nice coffee table book, faggot.

don’t know how clear this photo is but here’s one of my least cluttered shelves
i’m really running out of space

I own thousands and thousands of books that I have accumulated over the past 12-15 years. I've read only a small proportion of them. I've hardly ever had a proper job, and have spent my adolescence and my 20s spending mostly other people's money - family, student loan, job seeker's allowance - on books. I don't know if it's some kind of addiction. But I like books.

I've moved house recently, partly because my old house did not have enough room for books. The books are mostly still in storage and it'll be a few months before the shelves are put in. Would /lit/ be interested in seeing my collection when it's all up?

>>10962475
>it's some kind of addiction. But I like books.
Yet you don't like reading
>I've read only a small proportion of them

You may just be a hoarder or have some sort of mental impairment so yes, we'd all like to see what you bought since it all must look nice to catch your attention.

>>10962296
Hopefully it's not like this guy's top shelf

>>10957046
The men of humanity will come thanks to climate change of which western society is the one at fault, but sure, blame some minorities for a few homicides.

>>10957046
Going by your posts there's something seriously wrong with you