/lit/ - Literature

>>12285914

Over/under on how many of those OP read

I'm going with less than four

>>12285914
You've read maybe 35% of the total pages on those shelves.

>>12285914
You can only assume so much from just a photo of a bookshelf. I think we should get to know eachother over dinner.

>>12285921
ima be generous, 7 or 8

>>12285914

>>12285935
This desu. Where do you want to have supper?

>>12285914
Nice.
Are you a fan of Caspian Report by any Chance ?

>>12285951
You leave your beard trimmings in the sink and have mold on your bathroom ceiling, neither of which bother you in the slightest.

>>12285914
Are you a girl or a homosexual? Cause you’re desperate for attention.

>>12285951
Just look at how all fantasy cover fonts are knock offs of Tolkien.

>>12285951
Do people actually read GoT? Always seemed like a meme to me. Just can’t see myself reading it when there’s so much else out there

>books
>shelves

>>12285961
My place, I'll make it.

>>12286019
The only people who read it are the people who like the show and want to feel smart for '''reading''' a '''book'''.

>>12285914
Anon I can see your safe.
Why would you put it in a place like that?
They'll rob you. Also why do you have so many shoes ? AND WHY DO YOUR BOOKS LOOK LIKE YOU ONLY SCANNED THROUGH THEM THE MOENT YOU OPENED YOUR DELIVERY FROM AMAZON AND THEN SENT THEM TO ROT ON A SHELF.

>>12285914

>>12286002
Post shelf

>>12286044
So /lit/ then.

>>12286130
/lit/ doesn't like the show

lel, I'll bet you plebs won't figure anything out.

>>12286138
Ah, skipped that part, but I wonder how many '''hate''' the show solely because it's so popular.

>>12286073
What do you think of Céline?

>>12286158
I have not yet read him.

>>12286073
You need to wipe the chicken tendy grease off your camera, anon.

>>12286171
It's hamburger grease if anything

>>12285942
>>12285921
I dunno, I've read 16 of them. So let's give OP 16.

>>12285914
You most likely go to a single bookshop, most likely BN, in a cosmopolitan city in the US. You drink coffee.

hello

>>12285914
Yet another monolingual anglo.

>>12285914
Well you didn't organize your books by author, so I really want to punch your lights out.

>>12286342
> No windows
Nice mancave you got there. Or you snapped that at a museum.

test

>>12286342
comfy

>>12286342
Richfags piss me off.
We can't even see the books, you are just bragging at you big ass portrait, expensive tapestry and old fashioned furniture.
Show-off .

>>12286355
>>12286371

Thanks!

>>12286384

Whatever, faggot. Post your shelf instead

>>12286384
Poorfag is envious.

>>12286073
which astrology book is that? any good? eastern astrology guy here

>>12285942
>>12286194
I’ve read just over 20 of them in the past 8 months or so when I really started hoarding books.

>>12286396
I live in small apartment that I share with another poor ass student like myself.
Everything I read is in digital form .
You didn't even read what the thread asked for, let alone any of the books on those shelfs.
Are they even yours ?

>>12286406
Ofcourse I am, being poor sucks.
Imagine what kind of intensive studying he could do there, instead he half assedly brags about his(?) Shit.

>>12286451

Careful there, anon. You're projecting again.

>>12286451
Imagine how much time you could spend studying if you weren't wasting your time being a pussy complaining online about other people.

>>12286466
Projecting what ?

>>12286470
I'm a student yet I need to work in order to pay my expenses.

>>12286489
Good. I'd have thought you're a socialist begging for other people to back your miserable existence of envy and sin.

Now go assume about other shelves posted on here.

>>12286502
I assume that you are ALL GAY

VERY VERY GAY

>>12286489
The thread clearly says "Other people make assumptions about you based on the books you have".

>>12286342 posted a picture of a luxurious room, instead of focusing on the books so I judged him as a vapid person .

>>12286502
I am entitled to judge who I believe to

>>12286451
you're acting like an underage, you don't need to be rich to study

>>12286517
How naive can you possibly be...
You need to live in stable economic conditions in order to pursue a life of dedicated studying .

>>12286080

>>12286342
this room looks like it hasn't changed since the 50's, i wonder how many rich people actually live like this in 2018.

>>12286563
>sideways bookshelf

it's bold, but i like it

>>12286411
It's very introductory. If you're into astrology you probably wouldn't get much out of it

>>12286556
wrong

>>12286315
spotted the wizard

>>12286366
>Arno Schmidt
11/10

>>12286006
>Just look at how all fantasy books rip off Tolkien.

>>12285951
Lush and Evocative

I don't own a bookshelf

>>12285914

>all that NYRB

>>12286964
Why penguin éditions?

>>12287037
Do you really pronounce editions with an accent on the First e, or are you just being disingenuous

>>12287037

What's wrong with penguin?

>>12285951
That rangers apprentice is hiding on another shelf

>>12286972
better then your wasp larping hardy boys collection

>>12286366
A shelf's worth of reasons to learn German.

>>12287128
Literally nothing wrong with this shelf.

>>12286073
janda is a meme bro, delete that book

1/1

>>12287364
2/2, oops

>>12287364
>boston catholics
is this book about an underachieving segment of american demographics?

>all these unread books

You know, if you guys actually read these books instead of just buying and taking pictures of them, this place wouldn't be such a shithole.

>>12287386
I only buy books after I've read them on my Kindle and decided that they're worthy of joining my reference material collection

Why do people always assume normal looking books are unread? Most times my books still look pretty much new after I've read them.

>>12287431
Because the spergs here don't take care of their things.

>>12286811
I hate sex with my wife about noon today.

>>12287358
I've had pretty decent luck with him.

>>12285951
NotW is the best thing on that shelf desu

>>12287449
i hatesexed your wife too bro

>>12286921
What's that to the left of Vagabond?

>>12287667
A novel. 幻のマドリード

>>12287797
Is it any good? Also what about the other one

>>12287449
>wizard
>hates sex
it checks out

>>12285914
1/5

>>12288094
2/5

>>12288100
3/5

>>12288115
4/5

>>12288121
5/5
Rate

>>12288126
Don't tell me those are all the books you have. Very narrow range of work.

>>12286073
did you seriously take this picture, look at it, and think "yup, that looks pretty good"?

>>12285914
Organize your fucking bookshelf better jesus christ why is Corncob McMurphy in like 4 different spots

>>12288155
post yours

>>12288204
Don't have a camera desu. Not one with a digital output, anyway.

Judge me Bros, these are all I've read

>>12288204
don't ask for it, let her larp

>>12288216
Lies. Fuck off and die.

>>12287639
Probably, she's a slut.

>>12287812
We just did it again.

>>12285914
based NYRB bro
>>12285951
faggot
>>12286301
bottom shelf looks good top one not so much
>>12286315
based budding marxist
>>12286342
I'll mentor my son in a library like this someday I hope
>>12286366
based Arno Schmidt reader
>>12287368
collect about 2-3 thousand more books and the decorative stuff will look less larpy, the skeleton is really cool tho
>>12288094
based as fuck, love Burton

>>12288239
Link me to an ethically produced camera and I'll buy it, rudepsued

>>12288239
Jesus dude lay off the edge

>>12288245

>>12288255
>raspberry pi
>ethical

>>12285914
here you go. (One) bookshelf

>>12288300
Well I guess that the mugs are funny and cute.

>>12288300
just embrace your fate and toss out all your lit except for Lolita

>>12288300
>Buffy
based and slayerpilled

>>12288245
How is your mobile / computer ethically produced ? You do know that kids are being used as slaves to mine silicon right ?
Quit larping and fuck off back to instagram, this board ain't for women.

>>12288345
I'm using the same ancient computer that I've been using since I was a braindead 14 year-old. I don't buy computers.

>>12288094
is vineland as bad as people say it is?

>>12286784
You're either trolling or you are underaged

>>12288307
This single shelf of mine is, in fact, the result of me disposing of my larger collection of books.

I think a spartan lifestyle suits me better. Only my very favourite books remain.

>>12288223
Some ugly editions but some beautiful books

>>12288411
how's it like being 15?

Shelf 1

>>12288942
shelf 1 but with showing the books behind it

>>12288945
Shelf 3, which has been modified slightly. I decided to donate the Penguin dictionary of Literary terms since I've read the entries I wanted

>>12288948
Japanese authors shelf.
Though I should move the 3 kingdoms bookset to elsewhere since it doesn't fit.

>>12288952
Old pic of an old shelf. I am in the midst of arranging it better. I've imposed a buying ban and a goal to read at least a 100 books this year because it's so crowded
Any books read will be judged whether to keep or donate.
So far since setting the goal, I've finished Solaris, I've decided to donate it.

Most are from thrift shops

>>12285951
You have a replica broadsword hanging somewhere in your home.

>>12288181
I don't care how it looks

meh

just starting

>>12288429
It's goofy and comfy but also a serious commentary on the social impact of COINTELPRO. Its main focus is on the history of a fragmented post-hippy family, but it also satirises the ubiquity of mass media. I like it but lots of people don't, probably because it isn't a big heavy tome full of crazy things like GR.

>>12285914
These are all great books, but you really need to do a better job at organizing them.

>>12286315
looks musty and haunted

>>12290118
How should I organize them?

>>12290207
nice cabinet. 10/10 would put glassware in it.

>>12289643
wish i had a patrician second hand book store around here...

>>12286921
i like the variety. i gave that same history of japan to someone as a gift! any cookbooks?

>>12285935
>>12285961
>>12286027
Awwww how sweet. You'll make great boyfriends, my blessings are yours :,)

I switched to an e reader in 2015 so with a few exceptions it's a time capsule

>>12291643
jesus christ this gives me vertigo
>>12286811
unironically comfy, minwage-core
>>12289969
solid stuff ig
>>12289643
one of the best in thread

my shelf is poverty but i'm working on it, i lost all my books when i moved states

>>12288244
I'm not a marxist.... hardcore conservative, actually.

>>12288245
You'ed be pathetic with or without communusm. Fuck off and die.

>>12288250
Nah. Commies deserve the pit.

>>12290437
Yeah the walls of the pop up don't repel anymore.

>>12291170
th-thanks

>>12288300
I like that mug with the 90s paper cup squiggly line

>>12292539
that's one of my shinji ikari mugs

>>12285914
i can't afford to buy books, does this make me a bad person /lit/ for not being a chadbook?

>>12288300
>>12292558
mug anon! i didnt know you posted on this board too.

>>12292558
Based mug

>>12292588
gosh who is he, your boyfriend?

>>12292613
if only i was that lucky

>>12292622
aww

>>12285921
This. Most of those look untouched and unread.

>>12286451
Anon san wa why does it even bother you? Why do you even care? What's the point?

>>12288411
I can't read your name, namefag, except for the three so I'm going to call you 3faggot every time I see your shit until it catches on.

>>12285921
>>12292640
Is it a meme on /lit/ to purposefully damage your books and take pictures for pseud cred?

>>12292602
I like the Shinji mugs because I can hold them when I answer my door to convey to displeasure at callers. Or I would if anyone called at my door.

>>12292668
What if they also like Evangelion?

1/3

>>12292686
2/3

>>12292689
3/3
I’m working my way through them and have read approximately half as of today.
Rate my collection faggots

>>12292588
hello

>>12292680
then I really don't want to talk to them because they're probably plebs

>>12286366
really cool

>>12292693
half of it is books that people only buy to confirm their already held opinions
the other half is trendy normie shit that says nothing about your personality good or bad

>>12292779
>confirm their already held positions
You mean expand their knowle sage and build upon the foundations they already have.
I fail to see the trendy books aside from perhaps game of thrones?

>>12286336
why learn anything but the supreme gentleman's language?

>>12287364
>>12287369
your collection looks like the book section at Goodwill

>>12288866
kek

>>12287042
Of coursé I do.

>>12292686
>>12292689
>>12292693
fucking australians

>>12288155
Better than all the pseuds who shop more than they read

>>12292660
>Is it a meme on /lit/ to purposefully damage your books and take pictures for pseud cred?
What is the best way to do this? What is the /lit/ equivalent of /k/ throwing their brand new guns down a gravel driveway to make them look well used?