/lit/ - Literature

Bait thread fuck off sage

>>12571936
kill yourshelf

This just reminded me to go rewatch the Last Jedi on Netflix - which is easily the best Star Wars movie.

>>12571936

Pretty cool if it belongs to a teenager. Revolting if belonging to a grown man.

>>12571936
As
1/5

>>12573652
As
2/5

>>12573659
As
3/5

>>12573663
As
4/5

>>12573672
As
5/5

10/10

>>12574059

>>12573652
>>12573659
>>12573663
>>12573672
>>12573678
Only 2 of your books look like they have ever been opened wtf anon

>>12574116

>>12574121
not pictured: Delueze's essays critical and clinical.

>>12574128
That's a very thin copy of Dicken's collected works.

>>12574139
microprint

>>12574117

not my library. someone's private membership library i found online.

Tulsi Gabbard 2020

>>12574376
>Ayn Rand
>Malcolm X

Another Radical Centrist I suppose?

Are you 12 years old?

>>12574128

cursed/10

>>12573678
Bs
1/10

>>12574695
Bs
2/10

These threads always expose how horrible /lit/'s taste is and confirm the /pol/ invasion

>>12574697
Bs
3/10

>>12574703
Bs
4/10

>>12574710
Bs
5/10

>>12574726
Bs
6/10

>>12574736
Bs
7/10

>>12574742
Bs
8/10

>>12574750
Bs
9/10

>>12574754
Bs
10/10

>>12574128
Based Tintin poster

Shelf is under construction atm

>>12574760
Cs
1/7

>>12575147
Cs
2/7

>>12575229
Cs
3/7

>>12575296
Cs
4/7

>>12575255
The funny thing is this stack actually looks like it's been read which can't be said for the rest in this thread.

>>12575229
nice selection of utterly unread books

>>12575352
UTTERLY

>>12575296
What do you think of Naked Earth?

>>12575441
you should spend less time showing off your books and actually read them

shelves lol fags just stack your books floor to ceiling like a true alpha

Most of my books. Also have an assortment of comics and manga on other sections

>>12575321
Cs
5/7

>>12575689
Cs
6/7

>>12573659
>>12573663
>>12573672
>>12573678
>>12574116
hardly any of these books have the wear of use concomitant to a full and thorough reading

>>12575762
i said before: it's not my library. it's a private, membership-only library. i have no idea how read they are/how circulated they are.

Cs
7/7

>>12575590
How do you get the ones from the bottom out?

>>12575340
because we try to keep our books in decent shape?

>>12573663
The Orlando Furioso, who's translation is that?

>>12575340
They look old, read, and poorly looked after. If your books look like that after you're done with them you probably belong on 4chan, not 4channel.

>>12575778
>>12574200
why are you posting someone else's books?

>>12574128
that complete set of tintin looks good but i found the illustrations too small at that size. too easy to miss a lot of herge's fantastic background detail

>>12575689
your collection is insane and that animal money is based

>>12575762
2nd shelf is fully read 1st shelf is half read. Maybe if you took care of your books you wouldn’t sperg out at the sign of thinking someone hasn’t read books like the pseud you are.

CHAD

Books are in my kitchen pantry cause my shelf fell apart

>>12574121
The Book of Gene the New Sun Wolfe

>>12575689
thoughts on JM Coeetzee?

>>12577213
That's ghetto af

>>12577529
Ya but I do most of my reading/writing on the kitchen table anyway cause I don't have a desk so its practical.

>>12577521
they're not his books

Read on the left, unread on the right
Missing a few that i've lent to people Way of Kings, 101 åringen and Röde Orm
Currently reading Oathbringer

>>12575654
How do you only have that many books?

I'm envious yet curious and suspicious.

>>12577493
This looks bad. What's with this trend?

>>12575441
Spoiled by rich parents

>>12575778
Is that a paperback Library of America? Yikes.

I saw some Cortazar at the local bookstore and wondered if it was any good. Anyone care to give their thoughts?

Also, post more of that library my man.

>>12578664

unfortunately it's not my library. i found it online and would love to talk to the guy at some point. so many fucking questions.

>>12575590
so what do you do if... you know... you want to read one of those?

>>12578702
>>12578664

DESU it's one of the nicest i've ever seen, though. i'm openly jealous.

>>12571936

>>12580039

people who don't get it
will never
get it

>>12572048
underrated ,

top shelf is books i haven't finished, bottom shelf is books i have.

>>12580239
>>12578664

chess books

>>12580859

Go books

>>12580865
washington power politics
1/3

>>12580870
washington power politics
2/3

>>12580884
washington power politics
3/3

Don't hit on me, silly boys

>>12580954

what's "apocalypse culture" like/about? for someone with an academic interest in cults and millenarianism, is it a worthwhile resource?

>>12580889

random shelf. pretty much my goals in life.

>>12581217
theory of music
1/3

>>12581387
theory of music
2/3

>>12581394
theory of music
3/3

>>12581399

>>12581570

>>12581730

>>12574116
do you just throw away your dust jackets?

>>12581748

>>12581857

>>12581876

>>12581881
basd

>>12581570
whenever you are in that room you know there is a little trump face scowling down at you

>>12578174
Have you read '101-åringen' yet? I loved the first part when it came out and have bought '101', haven't read it yet though.

>>12575340
How much of a retard do you have to be to make your books look like that after one or even two readings?

>>12571936

>>12574376
I really like her, but would never vote for her. A Trump/Tulsi ticket would be interesting

I have three other shelves but this is my most recently read one in chronological order

dreams
reality
death

>>12577213
based /ck/fag. What's your favorite cookbook?

>>12577493
Gonna be a yikes from me, dog

>>12578702
>>12579820
Comfy comfy

>>12580884
Thoughts on Halberstram?

>>12581881
So many questions

>>12583463
>>12580284
Based

>>12573672
glad to see someone with the robber bride, probably one of Atwood's best. Next to Alias Grace

>>12574128
>a series of unfortunate events
Mah nigga

>>12581217
I remember this one: it was one anon who claimed to be working in politics and that this great library he built in his basement was very important for his work. He posted a lot of photos, seemed very big

>>12582788
I have, personally i thought it was pretty shit
Partially because every character except Alan and Julius somehow disappear without an explanation between the books and partially because the story is basically just: Alan and Julius go to country, meet current leader of said country, leader is an idiot, Alan reads a bunch news about wars and shit around the world on his ipad, Julius tells him to shut the fuck up, they go to the next country and then repeat that like 4 times.
It has some good parts sure, but its not even nearly as good as the original

>>12571936
If that person is over the age of 16 that is a fucking shameful shelf. I bet it belongs to a 30 year old bugman living in an apartment in portland.

>>12584061

that was someone impersonating whoever owns it.

from what i've gathered, it's a private library in washington, DC. not sure who it's owned by, but i'd guess they don't actually post here.

>>12580284

what's "forbidden archeology" about? any good?

>>12582775
based

>>12581835
I keep them in a drawer under my bed.
>>12576625
Yes that's really the only downside to them. I have an incomplete collection of the full sized editions elsewhere.

>that guy who thinks you have to bend, tear, mark up, spine-break, and damage a book until it's ragged to "enjoy" it

>>12584245
It's dealing with the original of humanity, more specifically it postulates that humans have been
here for millions of years. Furthermore, the book sites studies, inaccuracies in archeological dating methods, cherry picking of data that fits into the present evolutionary theory of human Kevin's, dogmatic scientists ignoring evidence, and much more... Personally I'm a proponent of the multi-regional hypothesis. My advice, if you want to keep whatever faith you had in what you've been taught, don't read this book. Upon reading, you'll be sceptical, critical, pretensious, judgmental, and dismissive of almost all archeological evidence proposed by supposed "scholars". Ignorance is bliss: so which pill do you take?

>>12585733
*Human origins

>>12581082
Not him but looking at the table of contents and you'll see if it interests you.

It's more or less just an anthology of wacky writings is all. I wouldn't call it "academic" but it might highlight some people or movements you haven't heard of elsewhere.

>>12586771
Why do you have English Yotsuba if you can read Japanese?
Also what instrument did/do you play (Accent on Achievement)

>>12571936

>>12580859
hey anon do you play shogi as well? looking for people to play with

Please indulge my bloated sense of self-worth.

>>12587036
hehe... hi! *waves towards you* i-i saw you passing by! well, I was just passin' by as well and, well, uh... *twiddles thumbs* i-i... um... *stammers* i just wanted to say hi! *frantically bows apologetically* g-gomenasai!!! *stands up straight again* s-so, uh... are you... *looks shyly towards the ground* s... s... single? *looks up towards you*

>>12587036
Sweet New Yorker tote

>>12575590
>local man buried alive
>last seen stating "The Earth is my shelf"

>>12575590
It’s like a Jenga game that’s end in you smothered to death by your copy of ‘A Canticle for Leibovitz’

>>12587036
oh my girlfriend was having me read nausica out of that same two book set

>>12588041
Ooph

>>12575654
early millenial tastes

>>12588122
Yea basically. I barley read, mostly get by recs from lit and reddit

>>12588041
go back to /a/

>>12571936
same

>>12587036
normalfag core

>>12588981
How so?

>>12571936
shelf's*

>>12587036
I was going to buy a new Nausicaa manga edition but ended up buying the Utena Musical DVD instead.
What is your edition like? I have the 4 volume VIZ perfect collection edition.

>>12575654
What did you think of House of Leaves?

>>12585695
I got one page into that gchq quiz book before I realised it was a "you have to guess the answer that the questioner thinks is the correct one even if others are valid tee-hee" type deal and threw it in the bonfire

>>12587036
you're a little bit too obsessed with them japs anon
i do approve of your lego great wall of china though

>>12574121
The quality falls off pretty fast.
>Masters of Doom
>Maus
>Lolita
>Narnia
I'm guessing this is stuff you had from when you were 16.
Everything else looks like a standard Western canon set, not bad.
That Bible is basically just an accessory though, I seriously hope you don't read the KJV of the Bible for any reason other than to be aware of how shit it is.

>>12589756
*tips*

>>12589940
I get it you're a retarded subhuman and a nigger, but criticizing the KJV of the Bible isn't a criticism of Christianity as a whole. It's just a bad translation and heavily outdated in 2019 - where better translations are available.

I hope you learned something Tyrone, praise Jesus you fucking moron.

>>12589756
Second shelf of that pic is almost exclusively Christmas presents from parents with the exception of everything left of Maus, the constitution, and soundings which is my father's old school poetry book. Narnia is what I read at age 6 or 7 so I keep it for sentimental reasons.
I don't read the Bible for religious reasons. I got that edition for the Dore illustrations. Divine Comedy and Shakespeare editions are gifts.

>>12589756
Second shelf of that pic is almost exclusively Christmas presents from parents with the exception of everything right of Maus, the constitution, and soundings which is my father's old school poetry book. Narnia is what I read at age 6 or 7 so I keep it for sentimental reasons.
I don't read the Bible for religious reasons. I got that edition for the Dore illustrations. Divine Comedy and Shakespeare editions are gifts.

>>12589952
so this is what people mean when they say "triggered"

>>12590787
Why?

I use the library when I can

>>12580954
nice exegesis
how is it?

>>12571936
recently moved so no shelves but I've got these here piles that represent about 90% of what I've read in the last 1.5 years or so

>>12592636
Are you a C.O.?

>>12592718
P.O.
>mfw adultery is still a NY chargeable misdemeanor in current year

>>12592717
Cool stack bro. I've read a quarter of those, want to read half, and never heard of the rest. This is why I love shelf and stack threads

>>12592636
Love me some Wendell barry

>>12592657
A man who knows what he wants. Good for you. What's your favorite king story?

>>12589952
Im guessing you know Nothing of the alexandrean or Byzantine textual bases, not to mention the dubious personages of Wescott and Hort. KJV is the Word of God.

>>12573652
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>>12573678
didn't know girls actually came to this site

>>12574128
How's that Alice book? Book outlet sent me a coupon but they have fucking nothing. Might as well get some dog eating books

>>12592846
>be a literal pleb who reads an objectively dogshit translation
>project others dont know anything
Kill yourself my friend

>>12571936
Star Wars and other licensed media is a pox on Science Fiction

>>12593339
>Ad hom
>Can't answer points made
I'm afraid I win this one, my friend :)

>>12592636
good picture
All The Light We Cannot See was the last book my grandmother read. How did you like it if you've read it?

>>12589952
KJV is the authoritative English version of the bible, you peasant

>>12592717
great taste

>>12593437
>having to tell yourself you win against objective reality

>>12594048
It was a sad book. Didn't fall into the disrespectful but common trope of viewing the war as good vs bad. Just told the story of some young europeans who were inevitably caught up in the violence.

>>12592846
My favorite King story is probably a tie between Wizard & Glass (Dark Tower IV) and The Dead Zone. Pet Sematary is also up there.

I just love when he doesn't give the reader a happy ending.

>>12594974
Wizard and glass is the one I can't finish. Haven't read pet semetary...weird how he spelled that. I just love when he gives the Constant Reader any ending at all.

>>12594753
>No argument.
Now this is just the cherry on top.
Happy Valentine's day anin. :*

>>12594048
>was the last book my grandmother read...
:(
I wonder what the last book I'll ever read is.

>>12575778
I like how you used book lists to build a library and didn't even read any of the books.

>>12593326
Really beautiful edition. I highly recommend it.

>>12581399
Nice, not enough music theory in this place. The books on the shelf that gets enough light to take a photo of, the rest are mostly musicology related, non western theory, tuning and the like.

>>12571936
Should i get the old or the new Thrawn novels? I want to experience the western "keikaku doori" fag

>>12580859
nice. 1900 elo reporting in. forever shit :(

Just what I have in my student apartment tho, most of my books are with my parents.