/lit/ - Literature

>>11165778
What edition of the Gulag Archipelago is that?

but roind biggers

>>11165778
You're such a basic bitch

>>11165778
Is that a print on demand edition of Decline of the West? Why didn't you get the Oxford edition?

>>11166072
the harvill press edition

>>11166095
fight me bitch ass

>>11166104
Saw in a second hand book shop for a decent price so i thought i'd pick it up. Wasn't aware of oxford edition, i'll be picking up the 2nd volume with that edition tho.

I need a new bookself, sorry for the bad quality

>>11166137

Did you take this picture with a nokia phone from 2004?

It looks like a fucking snuff film.

>>11166137
Looks like pop shit. Back to r books with you.

My bookshelf only has the finest of /lit/ memes.

>>11165778
A lot of pop history/current affairs in there. I’d recommend branching out.

>>11167189
unironically nice shelf

>>11165778
what the fuck is this garbage?

>>11165778
That's a stack not a bookshelf

>>11167210
Thanks bro. I’ve woeked my way through a lot of it so far, but I’m out of space so now I’ve just got books accumulating on my desk.

1/2

>>11167345
2/2

tiny shelfs in here desu. u niggaz 20 or something?

>>11166072

>>11167349
>>11167345
Well it’s more that my apartment is small, so I don’t really have too much space for large bookshelves.

Yours are fairly nice though, looks like a good collection even though I can’t understand any of it.

>tfw my book selves are all full, stacks of books are taking over my apartment and it's starting to look like I'm a crazy person.
I don't even horde books, I donate all the books I don't like

>>11167349

lmao at the gaben shit you grognard

Good to see an actual copy of Bottom's Dream in the wild.

>>11167189
Lol I have that edition of Mien Kampf

>>11167345
>Arno Schmidt
sometime I will try

>>11167189
Looks pretty good apart from SPQR, Mary Beard is such an awful fucking historian.
>people liked to do this
>they did it like this
>lol we actually don't know
>maybe they didn't and they did it like this
fucking atrocious
7.5/10

>>11167248
No it's a bookshelf just trust me bro

>>11168114
Yeah honestly I just bought it along side Plutarch and Suetonius so I could try to have more historical context to the primary sources I was reading. But I just don't really happen to know of any solid Roman historians; and I've actually heard of Mary Beard so I went with that.

Plutarch and Suetonius were much more interesting.

>>11167189
I like the books, hate the shelf.

>>11165778
That's just a stack OP. What's on your actual bookSHELF?

1/2

anyone else desperately clinging onto their childhood reading material due to the nostalgia of an easier time?

>>11168800
2/2

>>11168800
I'll have episodes where I'll get completely lost in the things I'd do as a kid. I'll emulate vidya that I played, read books that i'd read and so on. Those episodes usually last for a week before I snap myself out of them. Clinging onto your childhood for comfort can be unhealthy.

>>11168835
yeah, definetly relate to that. and it honestly just makes it all a whole lot more depressing, because once you snap out of it you realize you cant ever go back . rip

>>11165778

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>>11167349
cringe

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>>11169556

>Not organizing your shelf by nationality
how embarrassing

I'd like to get books but I dislike owning possessions. They keep you tied down.
If you are settled in life, by all means, amass books.
However, if you plan on picking up and moving, then books are nothing but a burden.
The best thing to do is to get a van you can live in.
If you can't fit it in, you really don't need it. The e-reader has changed the dynamics of everything. It is a game changer. The intellectual is no longer chained to his books. He has the sum total of human knowledge in his grasps.

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>>11167349
bugman

>>11167345
>>11167349
Would be nice if I could actually read the titles on your shelves. Pictures are too small. You an ant?

>>11169596
>organizing your shelf at all
Who possibly has enough books here that would warrant that?

>>11169987
Some of us, as you can see, have more than 5 books anon.

>>11169653
yeah the insurance and registration and payments on that van sure aren't going to keep you tied down you stupid fucking pseud

>>11167248
i know. i just wanted a bookshelf thread

>>11168114
Where's the Beard defense force now? They love calling critics pseuds with fedoras

>>11169653
How do you get physical mail?

>>11167189
Any recommendations fellow anon? Always looking for new writers to explore.

>>11169992
I have like 300. I’ve never not been able to find a book I was looking for.

>>11170021
The Recognitions was fucking amazing, I’d recommend that any day of the week. It’s been an absolute bitch trying to track down more Gaddis in my area though.

It’s not in that shelf, but I recently read a collection of Mishima’s short stories, if you can get ahold of that it’s called Death in Midsummer.

A couple other less known guys I have I’d recommend, Farina and Been Down So Long is probably the only beat era novel I’ve ever liked. Hannah Arendt and Origins of Totalitarianism is fascinating if you like that area of European history. If you haven’t read any Woolf I’d highly recommend To the Lightbouse and The Waves as well.

>>11170023
I mean, that's very autistic of you and I can relate (but I have ~200) but if someone were to browse your books, they'd have no clue what's going on. I have them organized alphabetically by subject because I like organizing and I like giving away/lending them.

>>11170058
I mean I suppose, but usually when people come over it’s more just “haha wow anon you sure are smart XD”.
If people want to borrow stuff they usually just ask for recs.

but honestly it’s probably just laziness that prevents me from organizing them

>>11170046
Awesome ill add all of those onto my list. Thanks mate

>>11170023
i'm autistic and enjoy organizing books

>>11167189
what is top left book. I asked this a few weeks ago

>>11167345
Apathy is a great little gem

>>11169767
its mostly harry potter fanfic. you wouldnt understand. i uploaded the pics for aesthetic reasons. lits shelfs are fucking ugly

>>11165778

There’s some pleb shit in there.

>>11172409
All that Stephen King.

>>11172409
Neat album

>>11172862
Thanks I love Björk.

>>11167349
Cool, art books

>Gaben pictures
>Size fixation.

oh well

>>11170473
Oh it's Euclid's elements.
It's mostly there as a reference work desu. I haven't like sat down and read it.

>>11168800
Mine are all in the loft getting wrinkly from humidity.

just got this stack for 5 dollars.
>feelsgoodman

>>11167345
>Bottom's Dream
w2c?
It's OOP everywhere :(

Check out my smelly, scuffed up, water damaged, outdated, written in, mismatched "stack" I got for a handful of pubes and a lap dance behind this Arbys dumpster!

>>11174254
2/2, mostly shit

>>11167980
bet they haven't read it tho

>>11174254

is japanese for busy people a good book for learning japanese? and if you happen to have read Genki, is it comparable in quality?

>>11165778
OP what'd you you find state of fear? I love Crichton but that was a slog and a half.

>>11174664
>>11165778

*How'd you find

>>11174134
>he buys new books
kek nice onions faggot

>>11165778
what are some books i can get to put on my bookshelf so i look cool, but never actually read them

>>11167349
Maybe a weird question but is that Ai Weiwei Taschen book multilingual? I’ve been wanting to get it but I can only find ones labeled multilingual. Is there an edition that’s just English? Or are they all multi?

>>11173993
nice

>>11174254
pretty good, but that copy of lotr looks too big and bulky to be readable

>>11166104
Is the Oxford Paperbacks edition worth it? I know its slightly abridged but its been such a pain trying to find inexpensive versions of both of the original full books.

>>11166137
fuck you, my man

>>11167189
your collection looks a lot like mine

>>11175272
leatherbound books, to go with your sofa

>>11175272
see
>>11177773

Ugly ostentatious things.

>>11177773

wow i feel a genuine hatred for this picture

>>11177773
>Star Wars
says it all

>>11178142
Any Proclus? You get into mathematics at all?

>>11174650
I used a pdf of Genki a while back, I think either will suit you fine

>>11176858
It's a cardboard box, 3 separate books inside. I've got the second copy of one of them because that book in the box is damaged to hell

>>11174254
What is that edition of 2666?

>>11179089
>Brooklyn Nine-Nine on DVD

Who honestly reads

>>11165778
Waiting for that one anon with the messy desk

>>11179683
>tripfag
Says it all desu

>>11167349
clear to boxes from the top and throw them out, then its pretty decend even for a gaymer feget

>>11179686
Thou'st summoned me.

>>11170023
I have five thousand. Organization is helpful.

>>11180233
This is fucking awful.

>>11177773
I love how obnoxious this shelf is

>>11180723
then this is for you

>>11179662
it's a good show

>>11179956
What do you do for a living to warrant a set up like this?

>>11181848
Download it or get Netflix

>>11179544
The name "picador" is on it, I'm not sure though, I bought it off Thriftbooks

>>11165778
How I do

>>11175713
it is multilingual. i dont think there is an english only book.

>>11172866
I own most of her stuff. Björk is great.

>>11183054
why do you own the Plague and the Myth of Sisyphus but not the Stranger? also the Homer bust is really cool. where would one look if he wishes to buy one as well?

>>11183054
patrician but missing the greeks

>>11181179
Holy shit. It's a monument to vainglory. You just know this woman bought books entirely for the color of their jackets. I wonder if any of these were even read.