/lit/ - Literature

>>11745762
I don't see the meme trilogy :(

>>11745778
whats that?

boring. needs more YA-lit with qt strong girl protagonists

>>11745789
Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest.

>>11745794
ah, no don't have those
>>11745790
are you a girl?

>>11745802
>are you a girl?
no

>>11745802
have you read any books with female protagonists besides mists of avalon? can you not get interested in a book if the protagonist doesn't have a penis or something?

>tfw only own one book

>>11745806
why would you suggest such a thing?
>>11745808
there is British

>>11745821
is it the bible? if yes, good boy.

>>11745807
>>11745802
>>11745789
You're one of only like 3 anons I've seen who organize their libraries alphabetically instead of autistically. God bless you.

>>11745810
:(

>>11745823
>why would you suggest such a thing?
Because sci-fi fantasy books are more fun when the protagonist is a qt instead of some boring dude

>>11745825
there is a little, I organise comics first and then anthologies, both chronologically

with the new bookcase I was able to transfer all the nonfiction to it and even after fixing up all the books that had been piling up on top into the former nonfiction shelves I still have a whole shelf free to fill

>>11745823
>DINOTOPIA

my fuckin guy

>>11745842
I even got the Allan Dean Foster novels

>>11745762
That's a lot books, yet strangely none that I would care to own. I already own everything that's worthwhile in your collection. Also, why would you own books by Pérez-Reverte but not by Borges?

>Welcome to the wolfe pack

>>11745876
he is here between Blish and Bova: >>11745789 sorry that ones a bit blurry

misc non-fiction
travel, reference, memoirs, cookbooks :\

>>11745898
Yea, that's Labyrinths, very nice, I almost thought you were a pseud.

>>11745906

>>11745912
the other two shelves of nonfiction are history and politics

>>11745890
I was hoping for Thomas Wolfe. :'(

So there you have it
Any recommendations or suggestions?

>>11745934
peake

>>11745807
>>11745934
>cartload of dickens
>no Doyle
P S E U D

get some allan quatermain stories as well

>>11745963
>no Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle? I have an omnibus of Sherlock Holmes but it seems to be missing. That's odd. Maybe a housemate borrowed it?
I will have to check up on that.

>get some allan quartermain
There is, Dinotopia blocks it

>>11745812
that copy of you only live twice is like a combo breaker
please either put it at the end or get another copy
i'm going to lose sleep about this tonight

>>11746014
what if OP sticks a pine shim under the book so the top is even with the others? will that settle your booklet/manlet 'tism?

Woah have you read all them books?

To be honest, these bookshelves are not very intersectional.

>>11745762
Great, now organize them by color

>>11746031
this is bait but
>buying books by authors of color to satisfy a wokeness quota instead of because they are good
>buying books to impress others at all
w e w

>>11746020
yes
>>11746031
what?
>>11746036
why?

>>11745762
Why all the Ellroy? Is he actually good?

>>11746063
yes he is

>>11745912
>>11745917
its that leftypol poster

>>11746063
>>11746085
Skip his early work and the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy and go straight to the LA Quartet: Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz

OP, you're a pleb.

>>11746158
>Any recommendations or suggestions?

What Lovecraft do you own?

>>11746176
none, never gotten around to him heard too many mixed things about his prose being purple and the racism

>>11745934
Bolaño

>>11745762
Nice, they look much better than my shoddy Walmart shelves. Are these those Ikea shelves that everyone is always praising?

>>11746184
what?
>>11746191
no this is a local brand called fantastic furniture
its pretty cheap and shoddy, the new bookcase the one with the nonfiction didn't come together quite right.

>>11746182
>has read Robert E. Howard
>hasn't read Lovecraft
You know they were friends, right? Also, Lovecraft is absolutely essential for anyone who's a fan of genre fiction and you clearly enjoy quite a lot of genre fiction. As for his prose, it's purple but it isn't un-readably purple. Once you get used to his style, he's an easy read. If you're a fan of Edgar Allan Poe then you won't have any trouble with Lovecraft.

>>11746195
and you can see some of the shelves have bowed under the weight

>>11746195
>what?
are you an idiot? I'm recommending Bolaño

>>11745825
Man, that's so annoying though when you have to move around your entire shelves every time you add a new book. I just put my books wherever is convenient and it only takes me a couple minutes max to find them.

>>11746209
is that a first or last name?

>>11746202
Poorfag protip: just run a 1x2 piece of pine strapping edgewise along the bottom of each shelf, far enough back that it doesn't obstruct the books but not all the way back so you still get some structural support for the front. Drill pilot holes, slap in 3 screws through the top of the shelves into the strapping and you are gucci gang.

>>11746214
>it takes me several minutes to find 1 book

>>11746237
Bruh how often do you need to get a book off of your shelf? If I'm reading, say, several books they are usually on my desk, not my shelf.

>>11746182
You've read Alan Moore's Providence comics but not a single H. P. Lovecraft story? That's kinda fucked up. And Neil Gaiman and Fritz Leiber also openly beat off to H. P. Lovecraft. Pick up one of the Penguin Classics collections that S. T. Josh edited ASAP. And ignore the "REEEEE HE WAS A BIGOT" idiots. He was but a lot of his stories (e.g. The Whisperer in Darkness, The Music of Erich Zann, The Outsider, The Statement of Randolph Carter, From Beyond) don't talk about race at all.

>>11746231
Last.

>>11746291
I read that for Moore rather than Lovecraft

>>11745762
We are brothers in Billy.

>>11746309
Yeah but Providence is very openly a homage to H. P. Lovecraft. If you liked it then you'll definitely like Lovecraft. Seriously consider picking up one of the collections Joshi did for Penguin Classics.

>>11746324
not billys

>>11746309
>>11746323
Or grab the Barnes and Noble The Complete Fiction book. It has all the fiction he ever wrote, except for some collaborations. It's cheap. Although it doesn't have any notes whereas the Penguin Classics collections do. By the way, if you buy the B&N book, make sure it's the 2011 edition. The 2008 edition has hundreds of typos.

>>11746201
what you mean "purple"

>>11746245
>>11746214
>not owning a book wheel

>>11746343
He really loved long, archaic adjectives. However, I think the "he's too purple" complaints are silly. Like I said, he's easy once you get used to him and no problem whatsoever for a Poe fan.

>>11745762
t. someone who will break his back while moving

>>11746356
>>11746237
>>11746214
>He can't into ebook

>>11745762
>tfw only need one bookcase
Feels creamy man

>>11746365
t. underweight unconditioned malnourished lanklet
If you think some 8 pieces of wood is heavy I feel bad for you son

i literally live in a one room apartment and have a thousand books rotting in my basement
in all our family residences in the city we have something like 8000 books, not counting newpapers and magazines

>>11745810
Lol who cares nerd

>>11746365
lots and lots of boxes

>>11746380
do you people make these personal libraries because you dont have any books leftover from your family members?
why do you even buy books
at this point my extended family could open probably the biggest library in my country on several subjects
and almost all of it was gifts or just found around the city, given by some dead person in the last 50 years
i fucking hate books, i literally read only shit i can find online

>>11746394
i hate books man, i dont get the appeal of making a library, in my experience they just appear if you wait long enough
for instance since ive started uni a few years ago, i gathered around 50 books on the subject from just people giving me their books on it
not to talk about 3 knee height piles of photocopied papers

or another example, i got into comics when i was 8, my dad goes, hey on the attic of grandmas house you have a catalog of around 700 weekly comic magazines i bought when i was a kid, i go there to pick some up, my aunt goes, oh wait my favourite comic is this italian thing, i got a box of it, she gives me like 20

>>11746365
My library is about 4x as big as OP's, and it's really no big deal to move. Books are the easiest thing because they stack so neatly in boxes (the small ones from Walmart). It's furniture and awkwardly sized things that are annoying.

>>11745767
*SNAP*

>>11746420
moms a lawyer, her job is reading a bunch of 50 page cases for her government thing every week, they pile up, she also owns every published bill in her field, and the european union ones, in the last 4 years she brought at least a cubic meter of paper into the house
her godsons mom owns a publishing house that publishes all young adult titles that make it to bestseller lists, and gives us copies for every holiday, i read john green because my bro left them around in the bathroom when he was younger
do you people like plan out what books youll buy?

>>11746359
Ah I see. Thanks for explaining. But yeah I have to give it to them, he really liked to drag on at certain bits.

>>11746444
yeh

>>11746324
Based Folio anon. How are the illustrations in the Folio Gormenghast books?

>>11745762
These are those tall ass ikea ones right? Did you mount the back to the wall? Or are they okay to stand on their own?

>>11745762
OP are you blocking windows with your book shelves? Why would you do this ever?

>>11745794
you forgot behead all satans

>>11746512
Black ink drawings with plenty of cross hatching. Fits the aesthetic of the books quite nicely.

>>11746541
I haven’t bolted mine to the wall and they’re pretty solid. They have a nice little cut out at the back to allow the shelf to sit flush against the wall if you have baseboards.

>>11745762
You won't reread 95% of those books. They're just taking up space.

>>11746609
Goddamn. I gotta save up for a set. Thanks for taking the pic

>>11746324
that's a patrician-looking personal library, I feel like a poor rat with my paperbacks now

Alright tell us when you start reading

>>11746231
who recs authors by first name? "oh yea, read some John mate! William is cool, too!". Are you an autist?

From my early teens to my late 20s I amassed about 500 physical books and nowadays I truly regret it. There's only about 10 books that I truly love and would keep it. The rest is a bother. Many I haven't even opened in the last 6 years.

>>11746799
as in what time of the day or in my life?

>>11745762
You're missing the fourth Dinotopia book.

This board really is just another incarnation of /soc/, right?

>>11747894
the prequel? that's shit

>>11747915
> A Land Apart from Time
> The World Beneath
> First Flight
> Journey to Chandara

The third isn't as great but one should still have them all.

>>11746373
I can't read a single one of those books' titles.

>>11746410
>since ive started uni a few years ago, i gathered around 50 books on the subject
Sweetie, that's what I buy in 1-2 months.

A library is tradition, a legacy and luxury of beeing able to just pick a book you want to read without having to leave the house or trash through piles of YA garbage. I usually just buy what I think might be interesting and store them till I feel like engaging the subject. My kids enjoy it as well as our library is better stocked than that of our town, so does everyone else interested in books I know.

>>11748990
fag