/lit/ - Literature

>>13324781
Actually mirin

I like what you study but I wish to crush the skulls of kids with rich parents who let them buy $500 of books every quarter.

>>13324804
get a job

very solid shelf. recs on Bible translations since you obviously know a bit of Koine. really feeling the new English Bible recently, I like to read non Catholic bibles, good textual notes.

here's a book you might like:

Valentin Tomberg: Lazarus, Come Forth!

>>13324813
You first, daddy's boy.

>>13324819
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll be sure to check it out. My mother read NAB to me as a child, then I read KJV after Confirmation (a gift), then NIV in the army. Now I'm older and NRSV is my preference. If I have to quote from a free online bible, it will typically be from ESV. They're all good.

>inb4 pronouns
KJV was not faithful to LXX in this regard.

>>13324788
thanks

>>13324804
>coveting material things
no.

>>13324849

>funko pop

read Dubay's Happy Are You Poor

>>13324859
Vivec is literally the only funko pop I own, for good reason. Mad?

Thanks for the rec. Y'all are full of good ideas.

>>13324868
>literally the only funko pop I own

This phrase is an instant gas chamber from me, dawg.

>buying translations
lmfao

>>13324917

My evangelion figurines are in the wash because of all the dust (was just putting back a lot of books my family doesn't put back).

>>13325004
based and wolfepilled

>>13325004
>because of all the dust
sure bro, just say you jizzed on them, we don't judge

>>13325004
Rei or Asuka?

>>13325292
not that anon but

>>13325292
I have both and Eva 01 unit.

>>13325317
PLEBIAN

>>13324781

>>13325409
based. Is that bulfinch in the black and copper spine?

>>13324804
Be glad he doesn't spend them on vapid things. Also the books in OP are hardly worth $500.

>>13325409
This picture isn't funny anymore so you can stop posting it.

>>13324781
Goals desu. Unironically next two years will be religious studies and then after that I'm doing the Greek meme chart

>>13326238
t. the guy in the picture

>>13324781
Probably my favorite part of my collection.

>>13324781
Why have you mixed up your Latin and Greek Loebs?

i miss the argentinian guy who posted giant thumbnail compilations of computer engineering textbooks

>>13326637
That's a great collection, anon.

>>13324781

>it's that jesus anon who posts his shelf once a month for validation with the well-curated continental philosophy to present the affect of being really, REALLY smart

Do the one with the gun and the rosary, that's an even more aesthetic shot!

>>13328137
holy shit kek, OP annihilated

>>13328148
Not mad. I want to see other people's shelves. If someone sees a book that interests them in mine, even better. :^)

>>13324781

Nice shelf. Are you in seminary, anon? Roman Catholic? Are you able to read the Loeb's in the original languages? Also, where's your Augustine!?

>>13328380
Thanks.
>Are you in seminary, anon?
Not yet, but that is the plan. OFM during/after college, if they'll take me.
>Roman Catholic?
Yes.
>Are you able to read the Loeb's in the original languages?
Only very little.

City of God is loaned out. I don't have Confessions.

>>13324781

>>13324781
Excellent shelf! Sadly I doubt you've read any of those books.

>>13324781
That's a very good shelf.

Need a bigger shelf, this thing is tiny and flimsy. Got probably 200 more books in storage.

>>13328705
>Golden Bough
based

>>13325409
kek

video tour

https://youtu.be/fraBg8dIWDI

>>13328738
based

>>13328738
>Andrew Loomis
based

>Manufacturing Consent
and redpilled

Nice shelves, would stack irregular objects.

>>13328680
Hello fellow brazilian.
The "Pensadores" series was well done this time?

>>13328738
That's actually really cool, dude

>>13326637
What's with the two nearly identical copies of TT and RotK at the top left?
And have you seen the little leather bound editions?

Nightstand feels my dudes

>>13329260
One or two years ago I found them in a bookstore for 500 yens (I live in Japan), but I was never able to find TFOTR. A couple of months ago I found the trilogy, with the box included, online for 3000 yens and I bought it.

>>13324781
Mirin that Josephus immensely, is that a good edition?

>>13328705
>celine & lautreamont
based

My living room bookshelf. Nothing particularly rare here. But it's some of the nicer or unfinished books that I own.

>>13329001
I like this. Good variety. Except Sartre, I'm mad at him.

>>13329040
I like your shelf senpai. What are your Greek books about?

>>13329352
A respectable nightstand.

>>13329561
Interesting, esp the appendices. It is what it says on the tin: complete works. English translation. Pretty affordable, too, or should be.

>>13329655
based. I automatically like people whose favorite books are non-fic.

>>13329834
A good shelf. Dune is a favorite, and I wish more of y'all read the Constitution.

Hey guys check out my books. You guys have some cool books. I fucking love looking at books.

Kill yourself.

>>13330629
You sound like a very well-cultured individual. I'd be interested in seeing what kind of thing you read.

>>13324781
Just fucking drop (((Christianity))) already if you're going this deep into the Greeks and pagan theurgy.

>>13330654
I didn't say I was cultured because I'm not a fucking poser you guys, spending more time arranging your pictures than a tranny on Instagram. You are the literary equivalent of the "I fucking love science" crowd.

>>13330691
I was being sincere. You sound like you have at least some things sorted out. Can I see what sort of books you read, please?

>>13330677
>he thinks study is a team sport

>>13330691
not that anon but take a break the internet is killing you. come back when your bantz are funny.

>>13330707
What the hell is the point?

>>13330711
I'm not here to have fun with you. I think you guys are losers for ogling at books instead of reading them.

>>13330721
See instead of being a bore you could have just coughed up the library from the jump. I found three books I want to read from your pic.

>>13330721
Thanks for the pic, anon. You should post in these threads more often.

>>13330756
I think you were initially looking for a reason to mock me. Nothing in the picture is obscure enough to need to be recommended.

>>13330761
No one is mocking you, misanthrope. You've been the rude off-topic hobgoblin in this thread.

>>13330796
I wasn't off topic. I've been denigrating the topic and to denigrate the topic is to talk about the topic. These threads are stupid.

>>13324868
>Vivec is literally the only funko pop I own, for good reason. Mad?
Based

>>13324781
Seeing books stacked on top of the spines of old Loebs has me seething.

>>13326807
What bothers me is that you know he's only buying the Loeb to read the English.

>>13328738
i love those vertical bookshelves. i have a couple but i wish i had bought more when they were cheaper. i can't find them anywhere any more except for ridiculous prices.

1/4

>>13331816
2/4

>>13331830
3/4

>>13331836
4/4

Bump

bumping with grainy pic of one of many overstuffed paperback shelves

Bumpp

>>13328680
every girl that he has ever led into this room has instantly creamed their panties at the sight of this wonderful magnificent collection of nerdshit

>>13324781
Elite shelf

>>13329655
This is what real philosophy looks like

>>13330609
>I like your shelf senpai. What are your Greek books about?
The Loebs are the Iliad, various Plato, and the Nicomachean Ethics. There's also an OCT there which is Ars Rhetorica.

>file size too big
fug

>>13324781
I dont have a shelf, I just pile them on the floor in different stacks

>>13337714

>>13337723

>>13337714
>>13337723
Solid taste

>>13337736

>>13324917

>>13337746

>>13337753

>>13328705
>that top shelf tho

>>13337760

>>13337774

not included in these: i have copies of Zen & Motorcyle Maintenance, 1984, Animal Farm, Pragmatism (by William James), Modern Man In Search of a Soul, and a handful of other books lying around somewhere.

>>13337786

>>13337793

fin

old books above that holy bible in the picture were my grandfather's. never met him but he taught english at a college in Oklahoma. some of those books were printed in the late 1800s and have some of the only instances of his handwriting that i have (marginal notes, etc)

>>13337738

late but thank you, anon

>>13330817
You are so critical of the idea based on an obscure principle (that taking pictures of books is like being a tranny and the patently false presumption that anyone spends more time taking a photo, even if they spend 15 minutes arranging it, than reading. You imply that books aren't worth talking about but you are on /lit/. I have never posted anything to one of these threads, but they have some value. Your 'principled' disgust for 'trannys' blinds you to the actual thing people can get out of this. It's not the best way to spend your time but it does offer a look into another human being in some small way by showing what they have read or how they want to appear. That's interesting. Anyway you are on 4chan so nothing here is actually a good use of time anyway.

>>13337896
Nobody said books aren't worth talking about, but that's not what's going on here. Any time spent taking pictures of books is wasted because all you're doing is ogling at covers. You're dealing with anonymous people so it's not like going to somebodies house and having a look at their shelf, so what is the use of looking at them? You're not learning anything meaningful about people.

I do find trannies disgusting but that's not what I said when I originally brought them up, and it doesn't surprise me that somebody like you would have so much trouble understanding a simple analogy. You should spend more time read and less looking at book covers and that might not be such a problem. Now because trannies are ugly, they spend a disproportionate amount of time doing their makeup and getting the angles just right to make them look as much like a girl as possible. I was comparing that behavior with the way people in these threads act. They'll pick out their best looking books, rearrange their shelf, and get the right lighting just to take a picture that goofy bastards like you can look at and compliment, to feed their ego. I can sniff out posers.

I don't care if you waste your time. I waste my time too, but if you're going to waste your time doing this then I'm going to make fun of you because I think it's sad.

hzkHCwB

thoughts??

>>13324781
Nice
I just set up my new shelves a few days ago.
>Pic related

>>13326238
don't know what you're talking about, i find it hilarious that someone on 4channel actually thought posting it was a good idea

>>13338691

>>13338718
Most of my /x/-tier collection.

>>13338735

>>13338293
Wow. I'm certainly a fan of those editions as well. Actually read American Gods on one. Can't imagine having so many though, very nice collection. :)

imagine posting your shelf on 4chan

>>13338011
Imagine ever caring this much. Fucking Christ you are pathetic

>>13339624
I need that edition of The Hobbit for my collection.

>>13339650
did you want the isbn

>>13339667
Yes please.

>>13339670
0618002219
or
9780618002214

>>13324781
Based shelf, mate.

>>13324849
Cringe.

>>13339677
Thanks based anon.

>>13339742

Genuinely, what is the point of buying all those books about a dead religion?

>>13324781
https://mega.nz/#F!HBgXSIyC!dGqrk0DEQsVxg74ZKoiwaQ

This is my le /tbr/ shelf

>>13339624
REEEEEEEE

>>13341355
I know, I was upset about it too. You would think the publishers would make them all the same size but they made the red one bigger. I even emailed them asking if I got a misprint or one that wasnt cut to size since it had large margins. Nope, they made it that way on purpose. So I didnt even bother with the middle book.

>>13324781
Are you a valentinian gnostic?

>>13341355
lmao (large mao)

>>13329655
best one so far, based anon

>>13324781
Do people who post this shit really think we can't tell that none of those books has ever been opened or used at all lmfaoooo

Besides the ones that you bought used.

>>13324781
cringe