/lit/ - Literature

Why hide away shakespeare =[

nerd alert!

j/k, are the dexter books any good? was thinking about buying them.

>>1233787
because he's boring

so, how many women have seen that wall?

>>1233781
Manchild confirmed.

C'mon guys, show us your bookshelves!

my bookshelf.....one day

argh

Here's mine as of several days ago. I'd take a newer picture if the sun were up, since I have horrible lighting, but there's at least 20 more now. And well, half of them are unread since I've got them all recently. Working on it though!

>1.49MB
>1.76MB

WHY IS MY COMPUTER LOADING SO SLOWLY TONIGHT :(

>>1233832
>Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

>>1233824
Where is that?

>>1233844
I think it was concept art for a library somewhere. Not sure if it ever actually got built.

>>1233844
it's just a CGI render

those anyone have the version of this pick with the hat and collar on the shelves?

>>1233872

/lit/ why can't I get into The Two Towers?
The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring were easy to get into, so what the fuck is up with The Two Towers?

>>1233876
thanks, not mine but really good.

>>1233853
no its not, ive seen that picture before, its a library in europe, i believe

bumping

>>1234631
Is that really yours?

>>1234636

yes

>>1233832
A++ for Natsuo Kirino, sir

>>1233876
> The Brothers Lionheart
> Let the right one in

Swelit FUCK YEAH

This will be my bedroom one day, you have my word.

>>1235012

Virgin detected.

And... you have my bow!

>>1235015
>virgin detected on 4chan

Mothafuckin' Quincy up in this shit.

>>1234639
>>1234636
some one repost D&E's bookshelf, I want to see what this faggot is made of.

>>1235061
Faggot detected.

>>1233872
>>1233876
I'm the owner of this shelf, but those are old photos. Updated version here.
1/4

2/4

3/4

4/4

>>1235036

>>1233781

You have the literary taste of a fourteen year old.

>>1233893
I'd really like to see what this guy's shelves are looking like now.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Novels-Ive-Read

>hatersgonnahate.jpg

>>1233781
Why is talon of the silver hawk seperate from all the pther Feist?

>>1235192
That's an awful lot of beer, sleeping around, and uninspired writing.

>>1235334

The children need to learn about Tekwar sooner or later.

>>1235117

>>1235117
jealous as fuck

>>1235117
>how to become a pokemon master

I looked at your collection, with envy, noticed it, got more envious

This is a mix of literature, reference materials, textbooks, and Classical Japanese/kanbun stuff.

>>1235579

>>1235117

have you read them all........?

>>1235603

I've read How to Become A Pokemon Master and the label on the back of that airwick cannister

Please forgive the general shittiness of this photo, my camera got dropped into some slut's drink at a party recently and the rice/baking soda trick didn't work out so now I have a permanent grainylens until I can afford a new one.

Shelf on the right is for research/school/writing, left is for pleasure.

>>1235630
That effect is... insane. That occurred naturally when you dropped your camera in a drink? That's nuts.

>>1235594
shush sriq

>>1235630

dem rulebooks

>>1235630
Also, holler if you need anything identified. Some notables:

First edition Silmarillion printing in upper left hand corner of pleasure top shelf

Lovecraftian remake of "Where the Wild Things Are" in upper right hand corner of pleasure top shelf

Derpy ghostwritten novel from ABC's "Castle" season 1/2 arcs, left side of 2nd to last pleasure shelf

All first edition HP books except the Goblet of Fire copy, 2nd to last research shelf

>>1235633
Yeah for the first few days I was pretty sure it was just permanently dead. Works well enough after a couple weeks in a ziploc bag full of rice and baking soda, but I'm pretty sure that horizontal-line damage is permanent.

Feels bad, man. :(

>>1235646
And before any comments about the Sailor Moon/Tinkerbell stuff, I'm not a dude.

>>1235649
>>1235656
>>1235661
Why are these pictures in mirror image?

>>1235665
Cause book is a bad enough dude...

>>1235670
Gross. If that coffee cup wasn't from this morning, clean up your room.

I can't stand to see a bookshelf disorderly. It's like disrespecting the texts.

>>1235679
>Eragon

>>1235678
it's actually a coffee mug, but point taken

>>1235690
it was gifted to me, i never read it. i think i have the sequel too

>>1235691
Oh. That's slightly more acceptable, I guess, but dirty dishes on a bookshelf aren't a huge upgrade from trash on a bookshelf.

You should have me come organize your room.

>>1235711

PLEASE

>>1235086
>Fermat's Last Theorem
>>1235087
>Oddworld Artbook

I'm genuinely a little aroused

Shitty camera, they're also pretty disorganized.

1/2

>>1235757
2/2.

You c/lit/s read the gayest shit; not a single book with substance.

I love reading, but I'm broooooke. I usually use the library, but I love owning books-- however ratty-- just to venture back into them.

http://amzn.com/w/1FLV42HR01TX7

>>1235757
>>1235760
I like you :D and yay for Japanese lit.

>>1235783

Math grad here. You're just being a tool now.

>>1235789
Despite that, not a bad selection.

Bookshelf threads. Making people realise the inadequacy of their photographic equipment and skills since...whenever /lit/ started (it's all a blur to me now).

Note: There is a lot of blank space on my shelves since I had to move my DVD's.

>>1236038

Mainly on this one.

>>1236045

David Gemmell? This guys got some fucking taste. Check out my snaga; www.afterdarkunderground.blogspot.com

>>1233876
>nazi hat
>slave collar

/lit/ you are a kinky motherfucker

>tv
>Rand
>pic quality lol

dealwithit.jpg

My bookshelf is a tiny little thing and it doesn't hold all my books, bawww. Collection spread across five pics, but two have a lot of my current library loans. 1/5

>>1237235

2/5

>>1237237

3/5

>>1237242

4/5

>>1237244

5/5

Man, everyone here has the Discworld novels with the awesome covers. I can't find them anywhere!

>>1237247
that is the biggest pile of shit-tier books i've ever seen
well done

>>1237253
Me too - I have some shitty Hodder-Stoughton editions where typos run wild. Same with their Dune editions - WTF covers, typos everywhere.

>>1237255

Hey man, as long as you're not dissing the software engineering book and the UML book (which is facing the wrong way so you can't see the title anyway), insult away. Reading shit to broaden my horizons, yo.

Crappy photos. Need more bookcases.

reading kafka in english must be quiet a pain :-)

>>1237400
Not as painful as reading Pynchon in German.

no need to
there's some english in germany :-)

>>1235656
That is a really cute bedside table. I love blue. But anyways...I own less than 5 paper books..all my stuff is on the kindle.

Actually it's not bad at all. His writing isn't that complex to begin with, so it's pretty enjoyable.

>>1233832
>Douglas Adams
>Neil Gaiman
>Albert Camus
>Lots of manga

I approve of your taste, my good sir.

Post one of Two.

post two of Two.

>>1233876
where did you buy that SS hat. so fawkin cool.

Why do most of the books on the shelves in this thread have uncracked spines? Are you people too busy buying books and browsing /lit/ to actually read?

>>1237733
lol, you actually read them?

>>1237733
I have all of my books in pdf or stanza formats as well, so, why not read on a screen? But flipping pages is great too.

>He felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Twoflower, who was holding the Octavo.

>'This is no way to treat a book,' he said. 'Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them.'

>>1237733
I treat my books pretty well, and also take pretty bad pictures. The small cracks that are on the spines of my books aren't really even visible in my pictures.

>>1237281
provide close-ups, please :D

If I'd known you were coming over I'd have tidied up.

>>1237733
I take good care of my books. The books I own that have cracked spines were bought used.

I've lurked long enough I suppose. Pardon the mess, we had to move into my grandparent's house to take care of them, and are getting ready to move since they are dead.

This doesn't constitute half of the books My dad and I own, we're both bibliophiles, and most of the books pictured are not mine.

1/5ish

>>1237942
2/5
This is a collection of Dumas' work, about 20 books all told. I forget the publication date and didn't want to take one out. I will if I get a request though.

3/5
a poor shot of the hall going downstairs. I once had an assignment to count the books in this house. I got to some ridiculous number in the thousands (my grandmother was a genealogist, and had a bunch of census books, etc)

4/5
Dad's bookshelf. Mostly political/historical/science fiction. Most of his sci fi is packed away though

5/5
pile of books next to their computer. the chest is also filled with books, but I can't be troubled to open it. It's about 2x2x4 though...

6/5
Behind the chest, some more books, including some in a box on the floor, and in the nightstand behind it. Messy messy messy :[

>>1237947
Holy shit that is awesome!

Publication date?

Also: your dad has shit taste in books (James Patterson, Stephen King, Halo novels)

Oh damn, OP.

You're entire bottom row is scarily similar to my own.

7/5 last one.
my reference library of metalworking and historical colonial american documents.

The stuff we have at the house in boxes I didn't picture, nor the things out in storage (obv.)

So far, I think I've got everyone beat as far as quantity. I've got envy for those with well rounded 'essentials' though

>>1238017

Wow, for having so many books, I see nothing exceptional. Congratulations on being in a house full of slobs though, I guess.

>>1237985
>>1237985
Yeah it's odd, he was an major.... I don't know why he doesn't read some more intellectually heavy stuff, he could handle it...

Published in 1904, and I just realized some are the same copy, like this book

>he buys books

Forgive the abysmally small collection, /lit. I'm only now getting into literature as a means of entertainment, and I gift the majority of my finished books to my younger brother.

>>1233832
we have a very similar taste in books. do you have a goodreads account?

>>1238083

Honestly, I see no reason to hold onto as many books as a lot of these people. If I like a book, I probably know someone else who will like it. I've already read it, so I give it to them. If I feel the need to read it again the future, I buy another copy, which I'll probably give away again. The only books anyone really needs to hold onto are reference books.

OP has boring taste in books. Those are the same books I see at all the major book retailers.

>>1238097
Yep! goodreads.com/sriq

>>1238083
>lilo and stitch
fuck year

>>1238103
no fuck it. Unless I got a nice hardback copy. The only things worth holding onto are my reference stuff since once the go out of print they immediately jump to hundreds of $$ in value. Alllllll those other books I posted are almost worthless (except that old stuff)

Kind of new to the reading thing. Read more than half of them, and also working on some Vonnegut.

>>1238097
Did you have an account as well?

Part 1

Nonfiction

>>1238284
Part 2
Nonfiction

>>1238287
Part 3
nonfiction, and a cool globe..

u mad?

>>1238288
Part 4
Fiction

>>1238292
Part 5
Fiction, mostly sci-fi..

These threads are stupid, and you are stupid for thinking bookshelves are 'cool'.

Kill yourselves, /lit/.

>>1238294
We look at the book collections, not the book shelves.
Y u so mad?

>>1238293
Part 6
Reading pile

>>1238284
>>1238287
>>1238288
>>1238292
>>1238293
>>1238299

Rate my collection you commies.

>>1238302
0/10

Tryhard(er)

>>1238294

I would list the countless books I have pirated from my Kindle, but lol.

Same words.

Fuck all of you tree killers.

>>1238319
You jelly?

>>1238448
>tree killers
Oh for fuck's sake, take a look outside, there are billions of trees in the world.

These are the exact homolouge of gear threads on /p/.

>>1238448

OMG WILL THE TREES GROW BACK?

>>1235117
huxley ..Huxely.. HUXLEY!

The only thing that bothers me about these threads is when people post an ebook reader.

Yes, it was kinda funny the first time. We get it. It's not funny or clever anymore.

And now it happens multiple times in a thread. Like: 'oh, well, I know someone has already done it in this thread, but maybe nobody noticed, hurp derp'

bump

This is the saddest thread I've ever seen. Such a pathetic display of ego. Like you NEED your friends or whomever to see all your books and be like 'Whoa man, so many books, you're DEEP.'

For god's sake I've bought a few thousand books over the years and currently own just five because I loaned out and/or sold the rest. Just read 'em and move on. damn packrats

>>1240841
I don't think this is the case at all. People like to share things they love, hence this thread.
I think that sharing and re-reading books is more than enough reason to keep them. I give books away sometimes, but mainly new copies; I share and loan out books ALL the time.

No, I didn't post in this thread.

>>1240860

But it's one anon sharing with another anon without any context whatsoever. I'm supposed to think x book is good because some random yahoo on the internet has it on his shelf? It's not the same as a close friend giving me a book and saying "Here, I think you'll really like this."
Do you not understand how silly this all seems? It just seems to be an excuse for people to show off their collections for no reason whatsoever than to simply show off. Meh, whatever I've never really gotten the whole packrat mentality and probably never will. Different strokes I suppose

>>1240841
I kind of agree, but then again I don't. I keep books I enjoyed, but I don't mind loaning them out knowing they might never get returned. I like having the book in my possession, so that if conversation strikes about a particular book I can refer to it, or even loan or possibly give it to someone if they've shown interest or I feel they need to read it.

In other words, I like to keep my books, but I don't mind giving it away.

If it's like a favorite though, bitches better return that shit. I wouldn't give away books I've bought that were valuable or really nice copies or something.

>>1240873
I know what you mean. I guess it's more about saying, 'hey, this is what I'm into, what are you into?' and connecting over recognised books.
Or hating one another over recognised books. Some of it is undoubtedly ego-motivated, but some of it may just be genuine sharing.

Anyway, that's how I prefer to interpret each post - as somebody saying, 'This is what I love! Do you want to see?' rather than, 'hey lol check my shelves lol i have read house of leaves lyk nine times alreddy!.'

Also: confirmed packrat 4lyf.

>>1240890

No worries friend at least you're an admitted hoarder. I just tend to not care very much for material possessions, which I'm sure sounds pretentious but which was born from living in relative poverty and with many siblings through childhood.

>>1240916
Oh, to be you! I am, unfortunately, the sort of person who craves reassurance, so all my books are like old friends waiting to welcome me back. I re-read all the time. I love the predictability.

Your way of being in infinitely preferable and certainly better in terms of living space and ease of moving.

>>1240841
>calls everyone pathetic for being show offs
>explains why he's better than everyone else

Well done.

Moved to uni and had to leave my books behind feels bad man

>>1241629
Moved to uni and my parents sold all my books and Legos while I was away.

Quit bitching.

>>1241632
Legos ;_;

>>1241632
parents sold my lego years ago

>>1238193
Pretty amazing collection nonetheless! May I ask where you got the Poe collection? Or rather, the publisher, date and edition? I currently have a book from the library of his partial works, but that collection looks brilliant.

;_;

>>1238193

>Hey this looks pretty coo-
>Russel Brand's My Booky Wook

Please leave and never return.

>>1238193
>Russell Brand and Tucker Max books
You should be sterilized.

>>1241645
never fails to make me sad ;_;

This thread has me inspired. I think I'm going to buy myself a few shelves and brackets because I'm running out of space in my bookshelf. I have a very small room right now.

>>1241645
so sad...

>>1241645
>bought Timesplitters 2 twice

Sad? The owner of these shelves is awesome.

>>1241712

Yeah, I got one copy for my PS3 but when it turned out it doesn't have BC I used my Wii to play the gamecube version.

>>1237237
>XNA

HAHAHAHAHAHAH faggot

Before the picture even finished loading I said to myself "Dan Brown, GTFO"

I have enough books now to fill up an entire new bookcase, but I have nowhere to put one.

>>1237253
Do you live outside the UK? I've never seen anything but those covers here.

How come everyone who has Bolano books only has 2666 and Savage Detectives? I'm not trying to be a d-bag or anything, and I do admit that they are two of his best works. However, if you've read 1500 pages by the guy, wouldn't you want to explore his 12 other short books? Or, is it hard to like find New Directions books in smaller cities?

>>1242178
I live in the US. We have crappy covers for Discworld :(

>>1233781

I've got pretty much your whole bottom shelf.