/lit/ - Literature

>>13550111
Is the adventures of Tom bombadil good?

Would chill/10

>>13550111
Could you tell me a little bit about this mythology book?

>>13550137
Haven't read all of it but the "Cat" chapter is cute and comfy.

>>13550151
Basically it's just an easily-referenced encyclopedia of classical mythology.

>>13550157
Decision made, thanks OP.

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>>13550172
>Look at all my toys!

>>13550237
Genuinely don’t get it

>he started with the greeks

>>13550237
>dislikes people sharing pictures of their book collections
>on a website about books

Bravo anon

>>13550326
Thinking about buying that Mythology book by Edith Hamilton, did you enjoy it?

>>13550326
Fix your drawer.

>>13550338
I enjoyed it, but i've never read any other book on mythology so I really can't say much.
>>13550339
It's a shelf you mong
>>13550137
pretty good selection,
>>13550111
Why is your edition of 1984 so thicc? Otherwise, unconventional but interesting selection.

>>13550455
based

>>13550137
why didn't you get the b&n leather bound edition of lovecraft?

>>13550376
It's a hardcover version of a massmarket paperback edition I've had for a long, long time, that my buddy just found. My old paperback copy has a huge price sticker on the front that I'll never cleanly get off so I'm glad to have a hardback copy to put on my shelf since I really like the art.

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>>13550667
nice

>>13550376
>It's a shelf you mong
Is this not a drawer handle?

>>13550770
n..no. I've never seen that thing in my life.

I am pleb. Hear me roar.

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>>13551033
cringe

>>13550796
Just fix the goddamn drawer.

>>13551084
sorry, not you.

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>>13551114
where would you even find these

rate and hate me anons

>>13551595

j

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>>13551618
0% chance you don't cross dress

>>13550237
Poorfag

Forgive me for mistreating my copy of 20000 leagues under the sea

>>13550137
>Moby Dick
reee it's titled Moby-Dick

>>13550326
Did he? I see some introductory mythology and the two epics. No Greek philosophy, no playwrites, nothing beyond the basics.

>>13551942
>Herodotus, Thucydides, Arrian, Hesiod, Epic Fragments, Xenophon
>introductory

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>>13552416
interdasting is there any particular reason why you like cased books?

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>>13552426
Folios are cheap second hand, well made and look nice. Plus the weight and the buckram bindings feel good to hold while you read.

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>>13552471

>look how good my shelves look!

hyper-materalist cringe. society of the spectacle at its finest. i'm sickened and disgusted. you buy books for the *content* you want to reread, not for glorified kitsch decor. either buy second-hand books or go to the library. you're a stinking pseud and it reeks, go collect funko pops instead and get off my board.

>>13552572
These bindings upset pseuds not only because they're new and lack any visible signs of wear, but because by virtue of being well-crafted hardcovers they're unlikely to accumulate them any time soon. These are very disturbing qualities in books to your average il/lit/erati who yearns to demonstrate nicely creased and cracked "definitely perused and totally not pseud" paperback spines more than he wants to actually read the very pages they hold together. In their eyes, investing in a sturdy, luxurious leather or nicely decorated buckram bindings to please the owner's eye and provide the books with more longevity is antithetical to the one and only reason of owning physical books at all; that is to serve as an achievement display that would quickly and unambiguously communicate to the two drunken girls and three college dudebros who visit their studio apartment once a year just how authentically e/lit/e and genuinely well-read the owner is, whilst definitely not trying to pretend to want to hope to look like it. Plus, the price factor also breaks some typical self-imposed illusions of being a chosen member of some semi-secret class of penniless bohemian intellectuals, engaged in cultural guerilla warfare on the back line of a grand army of philistine en-pee-see bougies, that so many younger members of /pol/-for-smart-people seem to be under. These are quite hilarious idiosyncrasies and I can wholeheartedly recommend skimming through some older shelf threads to find people both accusing someone of buying particular bindings to show off and chastising the others for not having their spines project the required aura of "well-readness" quite strong enough all in a single post.

>>13551595
how is neverwhere? i tried to read through it but got really bored after 2 pages

>>13552657

>y-youre just jealous!!
>others buy books for aesthetics but not *me*, I buy gaudy pathetic psued leather bindings because I care about q-quality!!

materialist insectoid cope. you got called out buddy. admit youre a lord of the bugs, visit a used bookstore for once and try getting out of your room. also

>mein cringe

yeah you're a pseud.

I cum on my books lol

>>13550584
I prefer paperbacks my dude

>>13550770
Kek

>>13551084
I like this, seems a chill guy

>>13552657
Wow cringed a bit there

>>13551734
>Books about socialism
>Hand full of pennies
Fucking kek

>>13553213
might want to look at those titles a little closer

>>13550111
R8

>>13553484
Why tf did it turn upside down

>>13552572
I can appreciate the physical/aesthetic aspects of a book, but this is taking it too far. Those Folio editions are expensive (some are >500, with a handful of limited edition volumes in the $1000 range). I could see splurging and buying a couple, but this guy has four whole shelves full of them!

Me, I'm fine with my cheapo trade paperbacks. I'll spend $20-30 or so for an Everyman if I want guaranteed longevity, but I'm usually wary of spending more than that. That said, I really, really want that Folio Sound and Fury with the colored text, but alas, it's sold out, and the copies on eBay go for >$1000!

>>13550111
>all thin shit
Brainlet. I myself don't read anything under 500 pages.

>>13552461
why are your copies of the monk and jekyll and hyde so giagantic?

>>13550447
Growing up in a Roman Catholic-majority community and being an ardent Roman Catholic is cringe. Growing up in a Protestant or non-Christian community and being a pious Roman Catholic is based.

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Hard to believe you buy solely for aesthetics. Don't you care about translation or textual quality? Don't you donate books once you're done reading them? You'll never reread 9/10 of these, what's the pointing on spending thousands and thousands of dollars for volumes like "collected ghost stories"? Maybe someone else can explain this mindset to me.

>>13550111
Ayyy, I just picked up that Kravitz piece a week or so ago. I love the illustrations, and the exhaustive lists of lovers for each major player-- it's wild to see them all listed so plainly, really gives you a sense of how frequently they slept around.

>>13550455
Jesus was a jew

>tfw fell for the /lit/ memes

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>>13550137

Good shelves, would read/10

>>13555576
nice translations

>>13555756
Nice to know that you read Spanish, English, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, ancient Greek and Polish, you insufferable cunt.

t.not even the italian guy

>>13555998
Kek good point

>>13550455
cringe

>>13555962
looks comfy

>>13553213
>books about socialism
>by mises
twist ending worse than you thought

>>13552657
That was great. Don't feel bad about these philistines not appreciating your beautiful collection. Pearls before swine.

>>13552032
you're a man of calibre, I can tell

>>13550455
>The Turner Diaries

Oh hey, a future terrorist.

>>13550237
librarycuck

>>13550455

>Why Nations Fail

Absolutely based, but the answer won't be 'the Jews' as you seem to suspect from your other books

>>13550237
Jelly boy!

>>13550326
0/10. No mechanical watches.

>>13550667
need a cut-out of this guy lmao

>>13550455
Based

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>>13551114
bet this dumb bitch never churned out a game in his life. in the time he reads all this, he would already have been a good programmed had he worked on projects instead

>>13555962
Would get along with you anon

>>13552657
fucking based

>>13550455
It was me all along James, the author of all your pain!

>>13557614
They're almost all mechanical

my ready shelf

>>13558931
Maybe turn on a light next time.

>>13558840
post em

>>13558960
the photograph is taken with a partially damaged 14 year old digital camera in the daylight

>>13550455
>Hesse
>The Turner Diaries
>Bible
Confusing, but also based.

>>13550326
the ugliness of those "fancy" books clash with one another.

>>13551067
very coherent.

>>13552452
expensive books on particle board shelf

>>13550157
Nigger

Why isn't there a standardized format and cover for all books, no matter what editions they are?
Each cover different, chaos everywhere. It is not pleasing to the eyes.

>>13552452
that looks awesome
fuck the jealous fags in this thread

>>13555576
Basato fratello Italiano

>>13557619
This is the best you're getting.

I'm not sifting through his hair or his glasses.

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>>13553058
>all these paperbacks seem untouched, dyer?

>>13562334
I can't image wasting money on books I wont even read. not even a poorfag

>>13550326
why do they look so fucking ugly.

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>>13551114
This is a bit all over the place. It's like you're confusing game dev with engine dev. You have learn C++ with Unreal, then you have rendering/graphics books, then game programming gems, then you have a Unity book. If you want to make a game, just focus on unreal or unity. Making your own engine is a rabbit hole you probably dont want to go in

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>>13558931

Why are you in hell?

>>13563561
I awoke in the 21st century

>>13550111
So long as you're 16 this is fine

>>13558931
Are you the guy from the Nixon thread a few months ago who kept going on about Agnew? If so then I'm so glad to see you back. We need to have a thread like that again sometime!

>>13553058
Thanks for reminding me to get some anime books anon. 10/10 would be an intellectual friend with.

>>13562587
bad lighting and because i actually read them

>>13564618
Um they must be old enough to post here genius.

Have a few antiques mixed in that I have no interest in reading but they add to the aesthetic

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>>13553058
Based

>>13565087
Getting started on shelf #2 with some larger books. Also a 1914 Pop mechanics that I’m very proud of

>>13565113
all that meme shit
>lol

This is only 2/3s.
Currently reading Plutarch's Essays (which seems to just be a limited selection and not "all" of them).

>>13565725
basé

>>13555576
Basato

1/3

2/3

3/3

/lit/ in 2020
catalogue is nothing but shelf and stack threads

>>13550322
he's just retarded

>>13564627
I'm afraid not, I just have an interest in great American statesmen

>>13551595
Yua have a case of the gay

Keeper shelf.

Small yet hearty.

>>13551595
Why didn't you get the B&N edition of lovecraft?

>>13567190
are they library rentals?

>>13567226
No. Some libraries had been selling their books. I've contacted one of the libraries and they did confirm it was discarded from their collection.

>>13565682
>Currently reading Plutarch's Essays
neat - I'm currently working through his Parallel Lives right now.
it seems like the only place a complete set of his Moralia were published in English was in the Loeb Classical Library. I believe I have at least half of them in pdf form, but I was looking at getting that cheapo Penguin edition just today because it'd be a more affordable edition to carry around.
if you're interested, I could upload what I have

>>13566760
Thanks. Would love to see more discussion about him and related figures such as Kissinger around here.

>>13568769
Nice b8

>>13550770
My man be zoomin

I start with Greek

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>>13570883
>Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
>Mythology by Edith Hamilton
>Misery by Stephen King
>Y: the Last Man
>assorted entry-level highbrow stuff
Actually pretty based!

>>13571318
All my /lit/ stuff is from the past month. My boss loves Stephen King so he told me those when I asked him Stephen King recs, and Gaiman's Sandman is my fave series so I went Mythology/Greeks.

I made a thread before but if anyone has any recs on Mythology kind of stuff, I'd be very open to recommendations. I work in a planetarium and although I know a lot of the sciencey/names of the constellations and stars, I've been trying to find out stories and tales behind them because I think it helps the kids learn/piques their curiosity. I know a bit of Egyptology from University and the basic Greek stuff from these books, but any other stuff (I've been trying to look at North or Chinese) would be appreciated.

>>13571338
Try the "Who's Who in Greek and Roman Mythology" that the OP has in his image.

>>13571338
you should indulge in bulfinch's treatise on mythology