/lit/ - Literature

>>12350631
some of this shelf is just books i had as a kid that i've never bothered to get rid of

>>12350631
Why do Burgers like manga? It's a disgusting taste as a burger.

>>12350631
/a/ shelf number one

3/4

>>12350631
/a/ shelf number two
jojo is the only thing behind the card stacks

>>12350631
I wish I had people to play magic casually with.

>>12350631
>>12350640
>>12350657
>>12350671
absolutely repulsive taste

>>12350715
Post yours faggot.

>>12350631

>>12350728
I use an e-reader and libgen.io because I'm not a retarded consumerist

>>12350743
>juego de tronos

>>12350743
Why wouldn't you read Tolkien in English anon?

everything that's posted is childish

>>12350775
Why wouldn't you read Tolstoy in Russian anon?

>>12350789
>Vaccination Condemned

>>12350775
He can't.

>>12350800
Because I don't know Russian. But you clearly know English so why read some translation of Tolkien's work?

>>12350811
>implying i'm the one who posted the pic
Being able to shitpost on 4chan doesn't necessarily mean that you comprehend the language well enough to be able to easily read literature in it. And some people just prefer reading in their native language. Or maybe it was a gift.
I personally prefer reading in foreign languages but I know plenty of people who are proficient in English and German yet they only read translations.

(only plebs exclusively read books in their native language btw)

>>12350631
>>12350671
based and magicpilled

Why do we need all these blog threads?
Kill yourselves.

>>12350959
nice loebs

>>12350631

>>12351661
based eastern esotericism poster

>>12350671
id be too anxious about knocking the cards over or some shit, looks absolutely based though

>>12350631
Didn't we have three shelf threads yesterday?

>>12350631
>>12350743
>>12351894

If I’ve read LOTR, Hobbit, and Simerilion, what should I read next?

>>12352292
the bottom of a gun barrel

>>12350959
Nice loebs (2)
Is the Modern Library Basic Works of Aristotle worth it? Is the translation taken seriously by scholars?

>>12351661
Utterly based.
This is the stuff I want to get into.

>>12350631
>>12350640
>>12350657
>>12350671
I genuinely do not see a single thing I would read

>>12352339

I’d say so, it’s 10 bucks and includes the Oregenon, Ethics, Physics, Metaphysics, Anima, lots of natural works, most of the Poetics

>>12350743
>100% genre fiction
Manchildren are the worst.

>>12352292
Children of Hurin imo

>>12350959
>>12351661
2 good shelves, what is with you Tolkien manchildren?
>>12350789
I cannot see like 75% of these titles

>>12351661
E.R. Curtius and all that Eastern philosophy. Good job Anon.

I wanna drag my sweet ass balls along all y'all bookshelves desu

>>12352292
History of Middle Earth
Beren and Luthien
Children of Hurin
The Fall of Gondolin
Books on Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm

>>12350959
based and redbulled

>>12351675
beloved stembro

>>12352372
impressive. i should post the few comics i have...

>>12351037
no u

>>12350640
>megatokyo
holy shit. i remember trying to like that back in 1999. also those are some well loved potter books.

>>12352965
entirely patrician

>>12351661
show us ur evola/guenon or ur a larp

>>12350631

>>12353088
Looks like I'm not the only one with several editions of the movies. Actually I bought so many by mistake, I already had the extended edition on DVD and I wanted to buy the BRs, I ended up buying a British edition that doesn't work on my PS3 and PS4 (BRs are region locked), then I bought the american edition and not long ago I found the same edition super cheap on Yahoo Auctions and I thought it would be a good idea to buy it and resell it. It's still here.

>>12350959
>all four Salinger books
based

>>12350959
>Book of Disquiet and Poems by Pessoa
that's a man of taste

>>12350959
imagine unzipping your pants and emptying your bladder onto this pretty collection.

>>12351062
> Blame!
You have good taste. If you loved it, try to grab copies of his other series, Biomega.

>>12353339
>equestria
Literally, kill yourself my man
Right fucking now

>>12353357
no

>>12353339
>Not one but 7 hardcover volumes of Fallout: Equestria
Why? Just, why?

>>12353380
They're not the same. I only own two copies of the same print. And because. I like the stuff.

>>12353362
You are a plague upon humanity

>>12353390
Why do you like MLP? I just don't get it.

>>12353399
Nice get. Also not the board for that. And /lit/ rules forbids discussing fanfic. Move along citizens.
I just like that stuff.

>>12352292
The Eddas, Beowulf, and the Kalevala

>>12353399
Its positive and sincere while being intelligent enough to keep an adult engaged and interested with the characters (who are feminine without ever seeming like pathetic animu girls).
Also, i want to fuck horses.

>>12351661
>St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, but no Plato or Aristotle
Theology without dialectic and logic is just meaningless, empty mysticism that speaks of nothing, and cannot describe anything comprehensible.

>>12353478
>Its positive and sincere while being intelligent enough to keep an adult
>an adult

>>12353595
Yes.

most of it

>>12353478
>>12353638

>>12350631
Read Platinum End?
>>12352372
Never expected Lumberjanes on here.
>>12353209
How likely is a 4K? I never watched these but I don't want to buy it since it's expensive for Blu-ray.

Won't post my shelfs since some books are all over the place.

>>12353713
No Harry Potter :(

>>12353713
Ascended

>>12350631

>>12350640

why does /lit/ has such shit taste in shelf trinkets

>>12354598
>shelf trinkets
pls be my gf

>>12350743
>reinos olvidados
Para mí, lo único que salvaría sería Stardust
>>12350775
Probably he's more comfy to read in Spanish: there's not any problem with that

>>12352372
wait a sec: what's the series on the top of your shelf? the entire illustration reminds me to Quinton Hoover's art

>>12354514
>I don't want to buy it since it's expensive for Blu-ray.
Really? I paid less than 10 dollars for one of the american editions and less than 30 for the other one, of course both are used.

>>12355057
You can get all six films for cheaper but only in cinema only edition.

>>12354798
Not them but it's Judge Dread.

>>12351675
>how to win friends and influence people
>fucking elon musk
>code monkey stem trash
>rest of the shelf is just fiction
Eww.

>>12350671
Vol 14 of Yostuba is out btw

>>12353479

Greeks get their own shelf my man:)

They're stacked and unsorted like this because I'm keeping them at my GFs while I move and we're running out of space.

>>12355699

>>12353339

Why can’t modern men do anything besides jack off and fantasize about the apocalypse

>>12355707

>>12355707

I only have ebooks

>>12355707
Nice one, anon. What are those two fat Oxford books on the left below Ulysses?

>>12355721

Based ancient lit

Learn Greek!

>>12355736
another copy of Ulysses with notes and War and Peace

>>12353071
kino

>>12355707
Have you read I Am Legend? Is it worth it?

>>12355757
It's been a few years since I read it, but I enjoyed it; I thought it was much better than that awful film. If you like horror or sci-fi I would recommend it.

Seeing all these bookshelves makes me want to read

>>12355803
ikr but shitposting is so much comfier.

>>12355708

Well anon, the apocalypse effectively occurred every other week in the past, we're living in the safest period that humans ever had especially in the west.

Anyone who owns a copy of Herodotus or Strabon unless he/she's an archeologist or had a formal classics education is a pseud. It's the same for people who own a fresh edition of the Illiad and Odyssey.

>>12355868
>It's the same for people who own a fresh edition of the Illiad and Odyssey.
>reading two cornerstones of Western literature is being a "pseud"
fuck off.

>>12355868
yikes

>>12350789
>vaccination condemned
>two copies of Taipei
doesn't really matter how much you read because you'll still be an idiot

>>12355889
I mean it could be worse

>>12355150

It's not. It's literally everything from 2000AD except Judge Dredd. Same publisher does a separate Dredd part works.

>>12354514
>Never expected Lumberjanes on here.

I tried volume 1 and thought it was rotten, which is why it's the only one there.

bump for comfy thread

I’m kind of having a crisis of whether I want to keep reading physical books or if I just give up and go 100% ebooks

>>12356037
Only faggots would have a crisis over this. True men would read real books all their life.

>>12356037

I prefer ebooks, as they are much cheaper -or free. But it is true that holding a book can be much "comfier".

What I do is just purchase a handful of books I might need to handle a lot, or those that I want with my all the time, or that I cherish the most.

So how many of you have actually read your whole bookshelf?

>>12355876
He has a point. Reading Herodotus or any other ancient historian is completely meaningless if you don't have a knowledge on ancient geography beforehand. I know you all just want to look smart, but for experts, you only look funny because it's quite obvious that you'll barely understand 1/10th of those books without prior knowledge.

>>12356255
You can use it to start understanding ancient geography, though. After all, how are you learning about any of these ancient peoples except by a source that begins its academic lineage with Heroditus? It would be like reading Augustine without having read the bible.

>>12350959
whats with the one random blue sticky in some of the books?

>>12356255

I’m not sure I agree but even if you’re right-that 1/10th of Herodotus is still worth it for literary value at least

>>12353071
at least rotate it so we can see the spines

>>12356227
I don't buy a book unless I've already read it three times.

>>12356276
>how are you learning about any of these ancient peoples except by a source that begins its academic lineage with Heroditus
By reading an ancient history book would be helpful. The problem with ancient sources is that most of the knowledge in those books are undiluted and comprehensive as fuck. It's also really hard to comprehend for people who don't have an expertise on those matters. It's like trying to understand modern physics through Einstein's papers without having a physics degree.

>>12353713
This is the pinnacle of /lit/ meme shelves. That's not a bad thing, either.

>>12356368
What you are essentially saying is that anyone who reads the boon before the cliffsnotes is a pseud.

>>12356255
I was talking about Homer, though.

>>12355786
Pretty good taste, anon. Your shelves look quite similar to mine.

>>12356292

They divide certain books-Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso or Mark Twain’s Mississippi Writings

What happened to the yellow bookshelf guy?

>>12354709
Animal Money is based, gonna read it in 2019

>>12350743
Would Sanderson be good if I wanted to improve my Spanish reading abilities? I'm looking for something not marketed to children, but I've tried reading real Spanish literature and it's still too tough for me. I'm thinking of picking up the Way of Kings in Spanish.

>>12356037
be like me and pirate the expensive out of print stuff and buy used the other inexpensive books

>>12351661
Required college coursebooks / 10

>>12350631
pic related is ~20% of my shelves

>>12351661
henlo fren. which book is that facing away, next to philokalia?

>>12358965
>Palinuro of Mexico
Based. RIP Del Paso.

>>12350631
>my bookshelf is an audible collection
s.....should I just neck myself?

>>12357299
Cringe.

>>12358924

Are you me? The same Apostolic Fathers with facing Greek!

>>12359760
Oof. I wasn't expecting a coincidence like that. Mine doesn't have a ribbon, but you're right it is the Greek-English. We're probably the same person anon.

No bookshelf because my collection is smol and pleby

>>12359819
>Greek stack
If you actually read them your more well read than 99.9999% of the planet.

>>12358924
This made me cum a little. That said, I wish I was more into Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism beyond an intellectual curiosity thanks to Shin Megami Tensei.

>>12358965
Based.

>>12359819
>secret teachings of all ages
based

>>12359930
how's that viking portable marx? adequate vs the fuckhuge penguins? nice shelves anon.

>>12359957
It's very solid, it has most of the major excerpts and texts that you really need to get a good understanding of historical Marxism. It's also good as a quick reference tool or for when you need a snappy 'Marx' quote.

>>12359930
this nigga sure loves himself some communism

>>12359819
>>12359952
>he published The Secret Teachings of All Ages when he was twenty-six
what am I doing with my life?

>>12360066
Don't feel too bad. Manly was unironically the pinnacle of man.

>>12357404
Sanderson in English at least is easy. It's published even in China, so I'd say that it's pretty accessible.

>>12359791

Yeah really crazy. I just found Greek Religion from a used bookstore too, and tomorrow an amazon order arrives with Campbell’s Sappho and some other loebs (Republic, Aeschylus, Argonautica) Very very interested in your books about Platonism

>>12350701
Go back to school then m8

or join a club. Should be easy to find if you're in a bigger town.

>>12350749
then show your e-reader library you fucking faggot

>>12360331
This, if these faggots at least had an interesting e-library but they're most probably just mass hoarding book packs with tb's of garbage they're never going to read anyway.

>>12354578
Why is Asimov cringe? I agree with the rest though.

>>12357299

Nice. I have an older paper white and was thinking of getting either the new waterproof one or an oasis.

>>12359011
No. But I think if you enjoyed something as an audible audiobook you should consider reading the actual book.

>>12360280
This, it's surprisingly easy to find people willing to try MtG. I wanted to play again a couple years ago and started planting ideas in some of my friends' heads and within a couple months we were playing every Monday with 10+ people because they were having fun. It was nice

Who has best asian lit shelf?

>>12352965
Nice. I appreciate.

Hopefully it isn't sideways
1/4

>>12360503
Of course it is sideways
2/5*

>>12360508
3/5

>>12360515
4/5
If anyone wonders why I have multiple copies of certain books, it is usually because I buy them for 1-2$ at the library.

>>12360523
5/5

>>12351661
I have Easwaran's translation of the Dhammapada, I should get some more of his translations of eastern literature

>>12350959
reading list / 10

>>12353713
VERY based and redpilled. Nice.

>>12359930
Proving once again that playstation gamers are the most epic and intelectual/.

>>12359930
>3k pages on Stalin
epic

>>12360529
How many pages is that big book?

>>12360261
Burkert is a good read.

>interested in your books about Platonism
Which ones?

>>12360904

>>12350959

Why is everything first published like 60 years ago?

>>12360515
>Lire Tolkien en traduction

>>12360892
It's just an old french-english dictionary. It has about 2000 pages.

>>12360942
Pire encore
>lire une version de poche
Mon père m'a acheté la collection à la bibliotèque avant de savoir que je préférais lire des livres dans leur langue d'origine.

IDK to use this

>>12360913

I got bored of contemporary fiction and especially lengthy metafictional puzzles

>>12353339
For sale:
Volume one of Capital
Unread

It's a work in progress

>>12361736
Whoops

>>12350959
>moby dick with cute whale ceramic on top
>rocks and Crystal's
>all those ancient greeks
>all those good classics
Feels goog seeing a man with good taste on here.

>>12353339
Why is that copy of metro 2033 so thick? Mine is easily half that.

Every time I see a shelf with Infinite Jest I can't help but laugh.

>>12355707
I collect old penguin editions too. Are you in Britain? Do you buy them because you enjoy them or because they're cheap?

>>12350631
>show /lit/ your bookshelves
why?

>>12361758
The letters, I have Dracula and is probably the biggest version I've ever seen because the letters are big as fuck.

>>12359930
>peter the great
>hegel
Sone pretty solid books here anon. Got quite a few yellow post it though. If those are bookmarks you should probably finish those books.

>>12361474
Lets hang out sometime

>>12361793
Yeah I'm in the UK, I get them for both reasons. I collect Classics and Modern Classics mostly.

>>12362001
>Roger Scruton
Based. How are his books, anon?

>>12362001
weirdo

>>12353415

based and ironpilled

>>12362001
What do you study/do? So far this is the best collection posted in this stupid fucking thread

Why is it that these threads are like showing up to a car show and everyone brings a beat-up piece of shit 1992 pinto?

Fuck. Show me a fucking Tuscan or koenigsegg or something, isn’t that the point? Why show off crap any pleb or pseud has? Doesn’t anyone have a serious library?

>>12353339
>Maus

we spotted the jews lover

>>12362421
>being impressed by an average boomer politics shelf

>>12351052

Thanks, a couple more arrived today so I had to organize

>>12364309
b a s e d

>>12361746
>>12361736
I like it. You're getting the bases covered. What translation of Homer is that? Records are patrician.

>>12362466
What's wrong with admiring the Jews? They are a fascinating culture.

>>12362001
>Hayek
>conservatism
>Spengler
>Gulag archipelago
>Stiglitz
>Hobbes
based

This thread is fucking horrible

>>12355757
Different anon here, I Am Legend is excellent. Not high brow literature but it isn't mindless either. Definitely worth a read if you like horror and/or sci-fi.

>>12364470
Welcome to /lit/.

My god, are you people gay or just plain retarded?

>>12361718
you mad? millions of commies, now deceased due to famine or overwork or alcoholism, would have loved to have had personal property like that. simple diversions that distract and educate. no one is immune from the effects of capital, nerd.

>>12351661
>Bazzilion Jung books
>One Freud book

Jung was trully a visionary, while Freud stayed only a Jew. Trully

>>12364534
>or just plain retarded?
first day on /lit/ huh?

>>12350789
>Mississippi review
Hello fellow southfag, Louisiana here

>>12355699
>>12355707
Is your copy of the Odyssey big enough yet? Jesus, imagine reading that thing

>lay book flat on table
>start reading

>>12353713
>Hume
>Hegal
>No Kant

what a depressing thread

>>12365444
>>12364534
>>12364470
t. samefags and e-readers

>>12360492
>Who has best asian lit shelf?
I also would like an answer to this question.

>>12362421
Im studying international relations, trying to prepare myself for a master's because my undergrad program is worthless
>>12362349
I liked conservatism, Fools Frauds and Firebrands was a bit too polemic for me, but good to get a feel for the writers it discussed anyway

>>12355707
>>12355699
Isn't that terrible for the spines?

>>12365415
outed. (actually I have two copies of the groundwork for the metaphysics of morals in there). I studied Kant quite a bit in school, but I never ended up picking up the critiques. one day, anon...

>>12350671
>>12350657
>>12350640
>>12350631
Why do nerds always have the neatest shelves

>>12365830
autism

>>12365830
they never actually read any of their shit

Don't hit on me silly boys

>>12365904
>pavic
>pynch and vollman
>western trilogy
>medieval lit
based

>>12353339
>7 copies of Fallout: Equestria

>>12365904
>Rebuild Asuka
Disgusting.
also, what is the Utena manga like?

Do you want to go a picnic with me? We could cuddle and read the Green Knight out loud to each other :3

I like Tolkien.

>>12366005

>>12366005
>>12366025
also cocks I presume

>>12366069
No, I'm heterosexual.

>>12366005
That set with the lord of the rings printed on the side is pretty cool

>>12366078
I am sure that you do, please check again

>>12366329
Last night I ate pussy, I'm pretty sure I'm heterosexual.

>>12350671
Nice pokemon cards bro xD
How old are you

>>12355889
What's wrong with Taipei?

>anime and manga shit everywhere
>/Pol/ meme books
>generally tiny and generally shit collections

grim

>>12366537
Welcome to /lit/ 2019

>>12350631
On the left side of my room, I have a small shelf of weird fiction like Ligotti, Poe, Baudelaire, etc. and literature of cruelty like Maldoror and Bataille. The rest is a few Russian literature and Western philosophy. I also have one shelf of a bunch of Mahayana Buddhist and Zoroastrian texts. This is all on the left side.

On the right side, I have endless children's picture books of high caliber like Beatrix Potter. I have a few chapter books too such as Moomins.

>>12365936
Actually, it looks like only two of them are copies.

>>12367411
no anon YOU DON'T GET IT... you have to take a selfieeeeeeee.

*tries to grab your phone to show you how*

>>12350631

>>12368251
Was enjoying your shelves until i got to your book on the plebbest branch of the plebbest martial art.

How was Foucault's Pendulum though?

>>12368251
Can you name the publisher and title of pic related?
Guy at the flea market had a huge collection of those with similar spines for 5 bucks a piece. Thanks in advance

>>12365780
Long term yes, they're all getting moved to my new place soon

>>12353339
>FoE x3
>Duck &cover x2
>Pink Eyes
>Sunflower

All of this and yet not a single copy of Project Horizons. What has the world come to?

>>12353362
What purpose does the block of wood serve?

>>12351062

>>12364408
snakes are fascinating too anon

>>12365577
Thanks for the answer anon. I've only heard him speak, haven't checked out any of his books yet (I heard he has like 50+), but I'm going to take a look at Conservatism.

>>12365904
based

>>12358965
top based if you have read them all.

>>12368518
rip patrice

>>12368323
Bocaccio, decameron. It's worth 5 bucks.

>>12368927
Gay

>>12369568

Bisexual