/lit/ - Literature

>>12097983
2/?

Every single one of those books looks new and unread

>>12097988
3/?

>collecting paperbacks
What the fuck is the point? If it's something that would warrant multiple re-readings throughout your lifetime then get a nice fine print hardcover. If it's not, then sell/donate/throw away. Stop collecting literal toilet paper, you goddamn pseud.

>>12097990
I'm very careful not to break my spines, and I don't lend books to my degenerate friends and family. I do have a habit of buying books faster than I read them, but I'd say I've read about 70% of my collection.

4/?

>>12098001
5/?

>>12098005
6/?

>>12098008
7/?

>>12098010
Nice shelf anon, but I can't read most of those titles.

8/?

>>12097983
>Ready Player One

>>12098023
9/?

>>12098001
none of them have even been opened, it's obvious m8

you haven't read a paperback book properly if it hasn't got some creases, you're a total fake

>>12097990
t. clubfisted barbarian

>>12098025
Haha, yeah I agree it's shit.

>>12098000
This is pretty much exactly what I do, except for throwing out the old ones.

>>12097997
>richard dawkins
oh no no no

>>12098029
Pinch your fingers near the back of the spine when you read to prevent pressure on the binding.

11/?

this has to be from r/books

>>12098043
12/?

>>12098050
13/?

>>12098033
those are all from the same publisher lmao gay

>>12098056
14/?

>>12098029
This. you're not an Authentic Book Reading Intellectual™ unless you piss, shit and drive over your books before putting them back on your shelf.

>>12098061
15/?
>>12098060
I like me some entry-level fine press.

>>12098065
Ffs

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>>12098069
i hate being poor

>>12098065
Nice shelf! Big Pynchon fan?
>>12098069
16/?

>>12098072
I swear to god if this doesn’t work

>>12098077
17/?
>>12098073
All purchased second hand for under $ 35.00.

>>12098081
18/?

>>12098077
yeah, love me some pynch.

>>12098086
19/21

>>12098064
This is why I only buy used books. Wouldn't want some anonymous faggot to call me out for not reading my books hard enough.

>>12098091
20/21

>>12098101
That's all folks.
>>12098097
Getting called out for not being hard enough on your books is like 25% of any shelf thread.

Some of you, like the guy posting most of this thread, need to invest in a damn carpentry book. Displaying massive amounts of books on ikea-tier shelfs? C'mon now.

>>12098005
where do you get the Dune and Dougal Adams books in this edition?

>>12098078
Are Mao's writings worth picking up? Also, who translated your copy of Herodotus?

>>12098115
>spend thousands and thousands of dollars on expensive new books
>display them all on the cheapest shelves you can find

Proper genius

>>12098122
Barnes and Noble. Can't really recommend them, they're shoddily made with bonded leather and the text blocks are already sagging after five years and one read each. Folio has a really nice edition of Dune and Hitchhiker's Guide that I'd recommend instead.

>>12098115
>>12098125
Spending $ 500.00 on a solid wood bookshelf is harder to justify than picking up a $ 35.00 book here and there. But I agree, the Ikea press-board trash has to go.

(1/2)

I like that people are shitting on you and you take it in good spirit. Seem like a cool guy OP.

p.s. nice collection

(2/2)
Sorry for upside down :(

>>12098165
>>12098176
You should buy a book about photography

>>12098174
Thanks anon. It's 4chan, so I expected to get shit on a bit. No use getting upset about it. >>12098165
What's that set of green hardbacks?

>>12098181
They were taken on my iPad because I thought it wpuld look better. I even emailed the pics to myself....

>>12098213
It's ok anon, just hard to read a lot of those titles. What are the Everymans?

>>12098203
A set of books called "Masterplots". Their basically reference guides to literature.

>>12098123
they're worth checking out regardless of your political stance since he was such an influential and notorious political leader.

And the Herodotus was translated by George Rawlinson, though I should point out that it's an abridged edition of the Histories. I found it at a goodwill bookstore and at the time I didn't really look at it too hard. I only found out that it was abridged much later, I'll probably sell it or donate it somewhere in favor of the unabridged version at some point.

>>12098227
Pride and Prejudice and The Divine Comedy. Also the lighting is pretty shitty so no harm done.

>>12098235
Cool, I’ll have to pick up a copy. You can find a cheap unabridged Herodotus from Penguin.

>>12097983
Roast my shitshelf /lit/

>>12098328
when do you turn 17

Please respond

>>12098328
The only real issues is that you actually bought Fanged Noumena and that edition of City of God Against the Pagans is shit.

>>12097983
>>12098328
>bhagavad gita

Are we really all that predictable? Also get more classics or you're not allowed in the club.

>>12098213
i think they look great, anon!

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>>12098356
Christopher Lasch is the greatest 20th century social critic. Who is included in that "populist reader"?

>>12098363
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>>12098340
Definitely a couple of books in here from my childhood

>>12098477
2/6

>>12097983
stay mad

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>>12098484
3/6

>>12098511
4/6

>>12098513
5/6

>>12098516
6/6

>>12098522
>FM 23-10
>USMC Scout/Sniper
>SEAL Sniper Training Program
post guns

>>12098078
nice shelf :)

>>12098419
>Christopher Lasch is the greatest 20th century social critic

Agreed, reading "True and Only Heaven" right now and it's amazing how accurate and prescient his commentary was nearly 30 years ago. If anything he has only been vindicated further by recent events.

The Populist Reader is focused on the actual "Populist" movement of the 1890s (the material ends in 1896) and features a wide selection by the leading figures and theorists of the movement, including Bryan obviously but also Ignatius Donnelly, Tom Watson, James Weaver, Coxey, and others. Also includes opposition voices like William Allen White (of "What's the matter with Kansas?" fame). If you are interested in the period and movement it's well worth picking up (can be had for less than $10 on Amazon).

>>12098528
Try and find all the edgy military and survivalist shit on my bookshelves.

>>12098540
It does sound interesting, thanks anon. nice shelf too

>>12098564
too much to list, tbhwydesu, and i despise navy squids.

>>12097983
>get those same bookshelves
>put them together at 2 in the morning drunk
>put the shelf part in backwards and have to paint it so it matches
>looks ok from across the room but i know its shit and its pissing me off
i want to die

My books in Argentina 1/6 (I have more than 100 books in Japan, I'll try to post some outdated pictures later).

>>12098639
2/6

>>12098646
3/6

>>12098639
this nibba got tomes in different area codes

>>12098653
4/6

>>12098659
5/6

>>12098663
6/6 books from my childhood, my grandmother bought most of them for me.

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>>12098105
"Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The learner is, not instructed, but burdened by the mass of them, and it is much better to surrender yourself to a few authors than to wander through many. Forty thousand books were burned at Alexandria; let someone else praise this library as the most noble monument to the wealth of kings, as did Titus Livius, who says that it was the most distinguished achievement of the good taste and solicitude of kings. There was no "good taste" or "solicitude" about it, but only learned luxury — nay, not even "learned," since they had collected the books, not for the sake of learning, but to make a show, just as many who lack even a child's knowledge of letters use books, not as the tools of learning, but as decorations for the dining-room. Therefore, let just as many books be acquired as are enough, but not for mere show."
-Seneca
what have you learned from all those books?
you're full of shit that that all cost you $35, only garish assholes with lots of money and no respect for it feel the need to divulge the amount of capital in their investments, which you're lying about, I count apprx. 600 books, that's a conservative number, so you bought each and every one of those books for <$0.05? no tax? generous aunt or what?

>>12098686
I assume he meant under $35 each

>>12098669
1/4 some outdated pictures of my books in Japan. I have more, but most of them are behind Tolkien because I don't have a big bookshelf in my gf's house.

>>12098686
It makes more sense to have a shelf full of books you haven't read over a shelf of books you read but will never touch again.

>>12098705
2/4

>>12098686
He clearly meant 35.00 per book. Don’t be obtuse.

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>>12098686
hominem unius libri timeo

>>12098719
4/4

>>12098719
soooo... did you read each of those versions of lotr

>>12098010

What's that wood box? I really like it.

>>12098719
>Japanese Eragon
why

>>12098745
looks like one of those watch boxes

>>12097983

Decent collection.

Here's my non-fiction

and fiction

>>12098722
as well you should, for he is not clouded, not distracted, free from doubts, secure in his knowledge and the means of employing it, he relies on what he knows, not what others tell him, a worthy adversary

>>12097983
>he bought from IKEA

congratulations on funding literal criminals who don't pay tax. You could have got something cheaper and more ethical, but you fell for the 'IKEA is cheap and good' meme

>>12098736
No, actually I'm a fanboy since I'm a kid and one of my fantasies was to have a bookshelf full of different editions of Tolkien's books. When I went to Japan I found out that second hand foreign books are obscenely cheap and I literally bought all the editions I could find. I don't even have 30 dollars in that shelf, I paid 108 yens for each one of them except for the biggest one (2000 yens). I paid 108 yens for pretty much all the books I have in Tokyo.

>>12098773
>ethical bookshelves
fuck off basedcreature

>>12098757
For my girlfriend, she got interested in those books so I bought them for her (now she has all of them). I read The Inheritance Cycle in spanish twice, I would like to read it again but this time in english.

>>12098000
I 100% agree with this. The only reason I buy paperback is so I can donate them to goodwill when I'm done....on the off chance some poorfag will see it and buy it for a quarter.

>>12098000
to take notes in you aboslute pleb

>>12098758

Neat.

yeah, sorry
currently reading top three

>>12098328
Where did you find a hardcover copy of Evola?

>>12098363
I feel like there are enough classics across the twenty odd pictures to make up for the first one.

>>12098477
Why do you only have books 9-12 of the Sword of Truth series?>>12098634
I mean, don't get me wrong the series is terrible after book two , but it just seems weird.

>>12098503
Want to talk about campaigns that we've DM'ed?

>>12098634
Flip it around anon. No issues, it has the finished end on the other side.

>>12099168
I've never DM'ed or even played a game. :( Nobody in my town is into it afaik, and there's no game shop to meet people. I started getting them years ago because I just love the game.

>>12099168
Got the hardcover Evola off of Amazon

>>12098686
I suppose I'm more Ashurbanipal than Seneca.

>>12098702
This anon had it right. There's no way to get 21 photos worth of books with 35 bucks.

>>12098764
How's Hitch-22?

>>12098773
You're correct in that I bought them because they were cheap. I was not aware of any ethical concerns with Ikea. Elaborate?

>>12098001
dude youre such a pussy. who cares about breaking the spines. they’re YOUR books. and books are meant to read, anyways.

>>12099176
You should consider https://roll20.net/

Lots of resources to fill out a game online. I started my table top RPG craze on Usenet back in the day, and this seems like a legitimate alternative to in-person gaming.

>>12099168
>Flip it around anon. No issues, it has the finished end on the other side.
I nailed the back into it. Can't be done now.

>>12099242
Books take a decent amount of the floor space in my home. Shouldn't I take steps to keep the spines attractive after reading? It's not difficult.

>>12099238

Good. Nice little memoir about journalism and writing. Hitch was in good company growing up in England in the late 1960s and 1970s. He loves to name-drop but ignoring all that, he live a great writer's life.

>>12097983
op i like your shelves. you might make a good friend.

>>12098101
> house of leaves
what did you think of it anon? who wrote it? what's the true story of the book?

>>12098176
>>12100024
also this

>>12098010
lmaó az a ken follett könyv szerintem minden könyvespolcon rohad magyarországon

>>12097983
>Manufacturing Consent

uwu

maybe if we shout loud enough we can summon rapture and have a proper bookshelf thread

i'm tired of these totally pseud shit collections. i want to see a real library.

>>12099080
Damn, Sonic Super Digest? That's some high-test literature if I ever saw any.

>>12098010
havas henrik, komolyan?

>>12099331
Haha, thanks anon.

>>12100364
I was always more of a Jughead Double Digest man myself.

>>12097997
>redwall

>>12101294
Haha, yeah all my old series from when I was a pre-teen are stacked behind my basement shelves.

>>12097983
1/3

>>12101638
2/3

>>12101647
3/3

Rate

>>12098056
How’s life on daddy’s dollar?

roast my fitlit shelf boyos

>>12099238
so your response to a guy saying >>12098073
is, "I spent approximately $15,000 on books." Realistically, since I got 600 books just counting 10 books per shelf at some point, it's closer to $20,000, how is that an appropriate response? Twenty grand in disposable income on books alone, dude, no matter how you cut it it comes off presumptuous and rude, the guy obviously had you pegged, it's fine to have money, it's fine to enjoy reading, making ostentatious displays of wealth to anons on the internet? Unsophisticated to say the least, which honestly, judging by your taste in literature, comes as no surprise. A hardcover edition of "Mein Kampf?" Puh-leeze. It's a handsome collection of a lack of refinement, an accumulation of kitsch unsurpassed in my experience, and at 20 grand a bargain at that, mazel tov

>>12102527
Do you not understand that book collections are typically acquired over the length of someone's life, as they buy new reading material, not purchased in a single lot. Also, if you think those old paperbacks and his fancy editions cost the same amount, you need a lesson in basic finance. I think its a good well-rounded collection, you're just being crusty.

>>12099242
>It's YOUR property so you should treat it like shit bro!

I'm starting to realize you guys have just as bad a taste in books as the people you complain about

>>12101781
>>12102527

i have a 10,000 book library and have bought every single one on my own dime: i've leveraged all my knowledge into business assets, which have in turn funded my book-buying. ive achieved this before the age of 30, and am totally self-sufficient.

both of you are perfect examples of the shitstain that is the current age: you ride the wave of neoliberal critique directly into its endgame, e.g. a rejection of all materialism simply on the basis of its materiality. you have no argument for this rejection beyond, im positive, the quasi-marxist watered-down critiques of "hur durr material objects are bad because CAPITALISM and ALIENATION"--if either of you could produce a single argument that justifies your overwhelming projections of class-based insecurity, then i'm all ears

you don't realize that part of the redemption of modernity has to be a redemption of materiality; it's fucking cucks like you piece of shit pseuds that THINK you have something original or interesting to say against a low-level poster like OP, but in reality you are participating, mindlessly, in the twilight stages of the german idealist project that has merged into late capitalism

fucking morons, you're more insufferable than the lumpenproletariat who don't even fucking read

>>12102527
Why are you so bootyblasted over some moron spending 20k on books?

>>12102598
Not the guys you replied to, but cringe.

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>>12102620
Wow, this thread got a whole lot more negative since I posted my shelves last night. To each their own, friends.

>>12099238
Megacorp that feigns SJW values and claims to save the environment by using ''sustainable forestry'' but I am utterly convinced this is a complete fabrication Founder Ingvar Kamprad was a literal Nazi and the company exploits tax loopholes meaning they are a blight on every company across the world . But hey at least they splash out some cash on your major political parties if you see that as a good thing.

>>12103085
I will buy stuff from ikea more often now. Thanks.

>>12098854
75% of my collection is from the donation run 2nd hand stores. So thanks.
For what it's worth I regularly donate stuff back, just not as much as I should

>>12102598
based and unironically good critique of the current frugal zeitgeist that seeks to tidy up and live smaller because their means have been hoovered up by corporations with government's consent.

bring back the epic. make striving for greatness noble again.

>>12098018
based aussie poster

>>12103094
because I don't like it or the fact I mentioned the founder was a Nazi? Either way you're just sucking the cock of sociopaths buy investing in IKEA, and I'm a sociopath myself so whether you do or you don't has no bearing on my mental state.

>>12103203
Both.

>>12103224
more power to you then, based anon

>>12103139

thanks brosef. believe it or not, i get paid a lot to tell politicians basically the same; at this point, you would recognize my name as one of the principal architects of modern populism/trumpean politics.

so, thanks for the recognition, you're actually in pretty good company.

>>12102598
I don't really mind people with large book collections. But I always wonder when they are going to get the time to read some of those books or use them.

But then again some are just enthusiastic collectors. They're building a nice library for themselves by buying quality books and preserving them as a legacy. Or collecting them because they might need it for their work and personal enjoyment even if they don't get cracked open.

I remember entering a house of a nice old lady with an absolutely massive collection. She had 12,000 books. All were cook books, and she used many of them for contributing articles for cooking magazines, books and research. Some were insanely valuable, she even had a vault with all environmental controls and protection for her really old cookbooks and related items. One of which was written on a fucking slab of clay because it was discussing Ancient Sumerian beer making. She said she went to Iraq during the 40s with a bunch interesting British gentlemen... and fought Nazis. She 'acquired' the slab from them as recompense for burning down her rented house which had her collection of local Iraqi recipes she had painstakingly gathered by interviewing the ladies in villages by herself. I'm sure there's more to the story the lady hadn't really told since it was obvious this was no research team but I was absolutely floored by the care she put into her epic cookbook collection.

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>>12102598
>>12102605
>it's fine to have money, it's fine to enjoy reading... It's a handsome collection of a lack of refinement, an accumulation of kitsch
Seems to me you folks are a little bootyblasted that somebody called out your simpleton taste, the money has nothing to do with it, it's the fact you guys so proudly display your plebeian appetite, and I do not use that term lightly. Downright philistines, why get so upset about what I have to say, some lowly neo-liberal, quasi-marxist? Just need to put me in my place? >>12102598 in particular, you mad bro? Sounds like you got things sorted out, wrapped up, 10,000 tomes of useless garbage adorning your flat, Hyundai Sonata parked out front, i wish I had it as good as you, don't get upset, insecure, I need your example to follow, economic independence, financial freedom, education, you're leading the way, if you get mad that makes me lose confidence in you. You want to spend $50,000 on Archie comics, I won't stop you.

>>12103477

>>12102598
asks for an argument

instead gets >>12103477 , THE quintessential millennial defense post

i dunno man >>12103477, it seems like you don't really know what you're talking about, especially with those bizarre and inaccurate projections (tomes of useless garbage? hynundai sonata? wtf are you even talking about?)

perfect example of weakness trying its absolute darndest to not sound defeated in the face of something/someone higher. fucking tool.

>>12103477
I mean these collections look like somebody went to the "100 Greatest Novels of All Time" page on wiki and snapped em all up, Time magazines "100 Most Influential Books", the inside jacket of Modern Library editions, you know what I'd love to see on this board? Somebody's collection of Nora Roberts and Beverly Jenkins, John Sandford and Sue Grafton, Mickey Spillane and Agatha Christie, David Baldacci and John Grisham, somebody with just a huge collection of trashy pulp, which are often really entertaining, and they're just proud as a peacock about it, like, "Fuck yeah, I love this shit, gets my dick hard, good guy wins, fucking awesome, cost a dime apiece." No, instead it's the same shit every time, Cervantes, Lovecraft, Homer, Nietzsche, Dickens, Celine, Rand, Montaigne, like you're afraid people won't think you're intelligent if you don't have a wall of your house turned into a shrine for intellectual evolution.

>>12103477
>>12103526
holy shit if this is the same poster then you are fucking insane, you contradictory piece of shit

you complain about the presentation of plebian kitsch, get your bullshit called out, then backtrack into saying that you would actually appreciate someone really owning their plebian kitsch collection? wtf? do you know how stupid you fucking sound,stumbling about for some semblance of coherence when you've clearly been ripped apart?

jesus christ man you keep just proving what is being said about you. you know there is a reason people gravitate toward montaigne and kafka instead of grisham and roberts, right? you stupid piece of philistine shit, you're a fucking david strauss, the absolute antithesis of culture: you're the same kinda of weakling that thinks shakespeare is meme level simply because shakespeare shows up in a lot of memes. classic mistake of the lowliest type of uneducated judgment.

>>12103487
Dude, I get it, you're so evolved it's embarrassing, you have a great life and that's why you swear at people over the internet, to reiterate your standing in the eyes of anonymous strangers, you can't defend yourself for a moment without resorting to name-calling, you can't justify what you buy beyond, "It's my money, I'll do what I want with it," which is a totally valid argument, I never said money is bad or books are bad, just your taste in books is bad. You admitted to having 10,000 books in your home, I said you have 10,000 tomes of useless garbage, that's not me projecting, what, you have 10,000 textbooks of molecular biology and quantum computing, astrophysics and mechanical engineering? You have shitty taste in literature, that's all, hey you might fuck your girlfriend 6 ways from Sunday, doesn't mean you know a damn thing about culture, you want to scream accusations of Marxism, neo-liberalism, millenial, which is the go-to "racist" these days, can't win an argument? Just call 'em a "Millenial," all because somebody criticized "Mein Kampf."

>>12103570
yeah, yeah, yeah, get mad, start using that word-a-day calendar vocabulary to sling some mud, "contradictory," that's good

>>12097983
Your taste in lit matches your taste in shelving.

>>12102598
I hope I'm just misunderstanding you, but you don't seriously believe that the only argument for the rejection of material goods is a marxist critique, right?

>>12103578
>>12103584

>asks for argument
>gets this again

ok guys, troll time has been fun. keep living the dream. i'm out.

truly this is why i run campaigns and you gentlemen are doing, well, whatever it is you're doing. i'd say: "re-evaluate; step back; there is another way"--but i'm pretty sure you suffer from the dunning-kreuger effect, or some form of cognitive dissonance, or something of similar like--i dunno, it's just no longer worth my time interacting with someone who is incapable of stepping up to the invitation of a real argument.

good luck.

>>12103570
because it's pleb kitsch masquerading as a refined connoisseur, a bookshelf with all the same books as every other guy out there, down to the same taste in pulp

>>12103578

just curiosity: i haven't posted a single image of my library, how the fuck do you keep assuming the nature of its quality? how have you acquired such undue certainty? i'm genuinely, earnestly curious about this type of leap of faith. help me understand your retarded fucking ways.

>>12103570
I'm not the same person whose arguing with you anon.
What I don't get is... you can afford these books, surely you could afford some quality bookshelves that aren't from Ikea. There are some nice ones out there like traditional oak barrister bookcase with glass doors on them. Or Cambridge style books cases or even cheap used bookcases from estate sales with character.

Or just for fun, make your own bookshelves to put your books on them.

>>12103617
you got pretty upset about what i had to say about the other guy's, you seem to think that 10,000 books represent refinement in thinking, and you seem to be certain of where I stand politically based on calling some guy a vulgar dipshit for posting an endless series of depressing photographs of his compulsive hoarding, then proudly proclaiming that they only cost him <$35 apiece. Based on that alone you've drawn conclusions that, jesus, i don't even know what, "Fucking cuck moron shitstain neo-liberal quasi-marxist millenial troll dunning-kreuger bullshit fucking philistine shit meme fucking insane piece of shit contradictory," word salad, you sound completely unhinged, you're rich, whatever, don't care.

$30 for a book isn't even that much.

>>12103477
>you mad bro?
kys

>>12103686
>>12103617

jesus christ man do you know how dialogue works? can you even answer a simple question? how are you extrapolating that i am pegging you politically?

you can call me angry all you want, because it's true: your stupidity is so great, so entrenched, that it angers me, even over the internet, that someone like you exists at all angers me, because you get in the way of people like me and offer nothing in return.

fuck you are so fucking stupid, all you can do is retreat again and again into this millennial bullshit rhetoric: "i dont care, i dont care, i dont care." yeah man, you care; you're just not smart enough to care properly, or interesting enough to even address me viz. the rational argument i've asked for several times. you're a fucking exhausting waste of a human.

>>12103705
That's outrageous. I'm pretty well off and I'd never pay that much for a paperback. I buy all my books used for a couple of dollars.

Leave it to /lit/ to ruin a comfy shelf thread with endless shit flinging.

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>>12103739

These people need to get off the Internet for the sake of their mental health.

Talk to you doctor about Lithium®.

>>12103793
I'm imagining it's just one guy with several personalities arguing with himself. This thought amuses me.

>>12103793

this is such a dumb fucking critique: it's like you think the internet doesnt matter at this point, that it isnt a principal venue and forum of human interaction, that it isn't a primary place of human judgment

or you think that--what--the internet is something more? where? its defined by consumption and low-level, usually false information sharing

and yet you call out someone judging another through a lens of traditional philosophical critique, ironically displacing one of the few attempts on this board to engage in judgment into some flippant remark about mental health and lithium

you're sanctimoniousness is just a transperantly sublimated weakness; you are either too weak or too dumb to do anything more than quote several people from the sidelines and offer your dumb as fuck clinical assessment. cool man--you really proved yourself.

doesnt a single one of you have something worthwhile to say? doesnt anyone actually have an argument? fuck you are a generation of truly poisoned souls

>>12103820
I'm saying that spewing vitriol on a format with no consequences has negative implications for both your behaviour and your mental health. I'm fully convinced that our society is no longer capable of rational discourse because statements and personal attacks that would have gotten you punched in the face for saying in person can now be slung out with impunity from your computer chair.

>>12103739
> how are you extrapolating that i am pegging you politically?
I just fucking told you you ignorant motherfucker, > you ride the wave of neoliberal critique directly into its endgame, e.g. a rejection of all materialism simply on the basis of its materiality. you have no argument for this rejection beyond, im positive, the quasi-marxist watered-down critiques of "hur durr material objects are bad because CAPITALISM and ALIENATION"
That's you fucking projecting, I am articulating a response as best as i possibly can by citing the comments verbatim, you jumped in to this thing so eager to get one over on somebody, This >>12098686 was my first post, a quote from Seneca about ostentatious personal libraries. All the shit about the dude spending however much money on his books was a by-product, bottom line is you dickheads don't even read half the books you have stacked up in your house, much less put any of the information to good use, > do you know how dialogue works?... both of you are perfect examples of the shitstain that is the current age...
That was your first engagement in the dialectic, anybody who begins on that foot is looking for a fight, if anything, you haven't answered my question, cannot defend your decision to have 10,000 books, other than, and I've said it already, that it's your money and you can do what you want with it. Again, that is a perfectly valid argument, you decorate your house with books, you win.

>>12103931

haha that'snot me "pegging you politically" you dumb motherfucker, holy shit i cant believe that's what you thought

i was simply making the point, trying to incite you to prove otherwise, that you most likely couldnt imbibe anything more than the current cultural standard--i dunno if youre left or right, i dont fucking care, both parties exhibit a same orthodox stupidity

point is you have yet to address thepointof even a basic argument

goddamn i cant believe that's the low hanging fruit you reach for

>>12103983
calling somebody a neoliberal quasimarxist isn't political?

>>12103983
What's the argument?

>>12103991

jesus fucking shit man just prove to me that you can recast the critique you originally made in anything BUT quasimarxist terms, that's all i'm saying, and have been saying

can you do that?

>>12103983
you sound a lot like politicians, it's no wonder you claim to work for them, they never actually say anything they just call the other person an idiot the whole time, seems to me you can't accept that I accept that you have lots of money to spend on books, is that what we're arguing about? You think that this is somebody with an axe to grind about materialism, when it's somebody with an axe to grind about shallow intellectual poseurs, guys who think owning a book is the same as being deeply in touch with what an author had to say

>>12104016
yes, you're a shallow intellectual poseur more concerned about the appearance of erudition than actual scholarship. How's that sound?

>>12104031
i'm sure it's unsatisfying, too many two dollar words learned, or rather INDOCTRINATED, by a liberal arts education or something, right?

>>12103998
This, I lost track of the point of this argument.

Personally, massive collections of this nature makes me wonder about the person buying.

If it's purely for display purposes I can't help but wish that the collector will go all the way and buy nice bookshelves to properly present the books to be pleasing to the eye.

If it's because he likes to read, and he wants quality only books in his collection. I find myself wishing that he find the best books possible that money can buy. Penguin books are great for reading but he could probably find some very nice quality hardcover books of the same title.

Also, I like to hear a story behind a collection, like the aforementioned epic cookbook collection. There's something inspiring about a hardearned collection that is carefully selected and retained by a person. The why and how they got a book.

>>12104031

>argument

ya nailed it, as i thought you would :)

>>12097983
This thread went downhill real fast.
Sorry OP, I thought your collection was pretty cool.

terrible thread

>>12104121
All shelf threads are terrible by design.

i mean... i was going to post my shelf but now i think i'll just leave, its clear this has turned into a dick measuring contest and not a genuine love of literature

>being widely read is a bad thing these days
That's a yikes from me dawg

>>12101656
>>12101647
>>12101638
Some very nice books there

>>12103856
what exactly about my post was vitriolic? I was just answering on behalf of another poster. I dislike IKEA but couldn't care less if people shop there, or buy Apple products etc.