/lit/ - Literature

>>13724748

1/5

>>13724849
2/5

>>13724858
3/5

>>13724861
4/5

>>13724865
5/5

>>13724748
Good one op had a hearty chuckle

>>13724936
Gibt es keine deutsche Übersetzungen von Mischima's Werke oder warum liest du Das auf Englisch?

>>13724953
von the sailor gibt es nur eine glaube ich und die ist recht teuer. 75€ auf booklooker

>>13724966
Ach so.

>>13724849
>>13724858
>>13724861
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>>13724869
Too neat, too much sign of expense, too little sign of use. A bland, colorless collection, tasteful to the point of tastelessness. Where is the spice? The delight?

>>13724748
I see what you did

>>13724849
>>13724858
>>13724861
>>13724865
>>13724869
Good collection but you seriously need to learn another language

>>13725293
>Learning a language besides English or swear words.

>>13725323
Also got a early 1900s copy of War and Peace that came w a free copy of Atlas Shrugged

My to-read stack from the used books store.

>>13725758
Cringe

Bump

>>13725044
post shelf

>>13724779
>>13724776
>>13725758
neck yourselves, incels
>>13725624
>>13725331
>Rand
have sex

R8 muh stack

>>13726973
>(((Stine)))

>>13725192
Love that copy of Stalingrad. Folio's are so aesthetic.

>>13726973
Based

>>13726923
Lmao, understandable reaction to Rand. I'm not really a fan of her philosophy but I read it in high school and remember liking it back then so I wanted to re-read it.

>>13724936
>dostojewski
kek

>>13724748
>Buttrustle
Fantastic.

>>13726891

>>13727009
Based actively-escaping-plebbery anon

>>13726923

>>13727795
Tranny/10

Recent purchases

>>13724748
why do you people not read books for their story? Like fantasy, thrillers etc.

>>13726973
you're a pajeet arent you

Prove you're not onions by burning down your shelf/stack and posting video here.

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>>13724865
kinda obvious choices with no sign of reading. pretentious

>>13727821
Takes one to know one ;)

>>13724861
debord and baudrillard show no sign of ever having been touched, as it should be

>>13725624
Your Crime and Punishment edition looks suspiciously small, mine is about 650 pages

>>13727795
Stop

>>13728028
:^)

>>13727795
>Rand

>>13727821
>>13728028
>>13728083
I can't find my close-up of my "pseud shelf" but I did find a more recent distance shot:

>>13728111
Oops

Oh, here's more!

>>13728160
do all your people et memed into buying ulysses?

>>13727924
Yea that's what I thought when I got it from the used book store, but the text inside is minuscule.

Not the best edition but it cost me 50 cents.

>>13728168
I've even read the first two or three hundred pages!

>>13728141
Is Illuminatus any good? Loved Prometheus Rising and I'll probably read Cosmic Trigger soon.

I liked The Archaic Revival by McKenna, you might enjoy it.

>>13726923
angryposting is cringe

>>13728135
Naisu

>>13728202
I enjoyed Illuminatus!, it's very entertaining. It styles itself after more serious experimental writing but is unchallenging, Count of Monte Cristo tier light reading. Lots of fun 60s type talk, alludes to a lot of writers and counterculture figures (Burroughs' influence especially being thrown in sharp relief). Pretty funny too. I liked Cosmic Trigger a bit less: I feel that RAW is very uncritical and isn't very self-conscious, whatever his claims of radical skepticism, and while this lends color to his fiction, his non-fiction suffers for it. I have the same feeling with McKenna, but to a much lesser degree, and I enjoyed True Hallucinations partly because I could read it as a narrative rather than a series of claims. He's also just a better (or prettier) speaker and writer, I think. I'll look into The Archaic Revival. Have you read Food of the Gods? It seems to be his best known, and I haven't read it yet.

Just finished organizing these today

Summer sales stack

>>13728359
lmao move aside pleb

>>13728359
They definitely look tacky all together like that with nothing else, but having a handful of them scattered throughout a bookcase would be fine.

>>13728442
I own this because I feel that the kitsch is appropriate to the content

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>>13725331
>those pristine spines
Do you faggots just buy books and not read them?

>>13728658
Where do you think you are?

>>13728514
The main purpose of books is not to have them as a decoration, but to fucking read them. You could've bought this shit for less than 20$ yet you bought some 100$ worthless piece of shit, because your main sight is set on how the books look you fucking pseud

>>13728691
It cost like $5 lmao, it's vomit green pleather

>>13728658
The top one actually has a paperwrap around it to protect it, the other one's I just bought, so of course the spines are still fine dude.

>>13728934
>>13728658
Oh and the Schattenfroh one is actually a hardcover, so the spine will never look shit, it will stay like that, even after I've read the whole book.

>>13728338
>because I could read it as a narrative rather than a series of claims
Archaic Revival is like that. It's a compilation of interviews and essays by McKenna. You have to read it more as theories than claims obviously. He goes into novelty theory for a chapter which you can definitely skip. Haven't read Food of the Gods, I don't find it particularly appealing as it's mostly on shrooms.

>>13724748
very curious about hot cop's buns
>>13727009
shelf of shame
>>13728130
schiller has many good essays for aesthetes

>>13728658
Not everyone handles their books like an absolute retard like you.

>>13724776
Lmao gets me every time

>>13724776
where does this pic origin from?
pls dont tell me that retard is one of us

>>13724748
Yesterday's finds in the library bookstore: a dollar each. I love that place.

>>13729442
There's less greek works at my used bookstore than in this entire stack ...

>>13729463
It's all about the luck of the day. A few profs live in the area and weed out their collections now and then, I think, and many university students drop off their old texts.

>>13729487
nice haul wish i lived in a more academic area

1/3

>>13729525
2/3

>>13729533
Can't let you see my degrees

>>13729544
Nice collection (like the Eliade and Otto). It looks like they're there to be read, not to fuck around, and I don't mind a little bric-à-brac on shelves.

>>13729525
>Jane Eyre, Flannery o'connor
>kirby, plush animals
>romance manga/yaoi

Fembot confirmed

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>>13729582
Forgot these. Theres a few more but I'm too lazy to find them

>>13728658
Some people actually care about the books they read and don't destroy the spine, pleb.

>>13729636
Why have the same edition of the same book twice?

>>13729787
It's kind of corny, but since I'm going to grad school for Dostoevsky, my family wanted to all read my favorite one. I read it out loud to them and they comment and stuff

>>13724966

>>13727862
This

>>13729892
ah ok ich bin aber schon bei der hälfte angekommen da brauche ich die deutsche version nicht

>>13729818
fuck man that's so beautiful I wish I had a family like this

>>13730253
They really like Alyosha lol.

>>13728359
>hardbacks
lmaoing @ your life

>>13729818
thats very sweet anon c:

>want to post my bookshelf
>dont want to get bullied since my reading is limited to what i find at goodwill

>>13730335
Good paleo reading lifestyle.

i'm done fucking around with fiction.

>>13729525
>go away I'm reading
Cringe but I still want to cum in your pussy

My bedside shelf. The library book (The Appreciation of Literature by George Woodberry) is one I've checked out from the local public library. Kindle Paperwhite on top, loaded with a shitton of ebooks and samples of ebooks.

>>13730335
Post it senpai

>>13730335
Bro, there's nothing wrong with Goodwill finds! Good finds cheap are based regardless of where you get them.
t. that's literally half or more of my owned book library

>>13730630
>>13730335
Yeah i get a lot at goodwill too. You can find some seriously good stuff there. Once an old like Russian scholar guy died and there was like 10k worth of Russian lit, history, politics, etc there

>>13730551
I don't know about that John Milton guy. I read paradise lost and honestly it was pretty boring imo

>>13727831
Neat, I've never seen another /lit/poster that owns Infante's Inferno

>>13726973
>first edition of Monster Blood III
>not being stored in a temperature-controlled vault at your local university
Are you insane?

>>13725293
what do you think would be the best book to start learning Latin?

>>13729533
That upside down book is triggering me

>>13730724
Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata

>>13730335
Post it anon! Part of the fun of /lit/ is getting ripped apart by pseuds.

r8 my french collection (mostly french anyways)

>>13729544
At least tell us what they are?

>>13731542
Double major--humanities and psychology. Currently in my masters for /lit/

>>13731262
Sorry, just moved

>>13729487
the classics are too foreign. foreign syntax, foreign tenses, grammatically ugly. stylistically ugly.

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>>13724936
>dostojewski
Was this a pun?

>The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea
Great book - if not degenerate - but I wouldn't keep it on my shelf you uncultured swine. Great ending also.

>A clockwork Orange
Literally why? I tried reading it and it was just such a nothing. It's only famous because of Kubrick and Burgess himself was angry that out of all his books this one which wasn't even near his best work became his most famous. And it's not like it was difficult you could follow it fairly easily even if you didn't know the words purely intuitively.

>>13725624
Do yourself a favour and skip Man and his Symbols, I found it to be a horrible summing up of Jungian theory and just made it seem as if it were a toy shop. You might as well read it I guess but should definitely read Modern Man in search of a Soul as the primary introduction.

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>>13729442
Ooh, I want that Walter Benjamin collection.

>>13729524
Some visits I find nothing, but other times I'm overwhelmed. For the price of one new book, I get a dozen interesting ones (and usually in great shape). I'm very lucky, though. In an average week I check out two nearby library bookstores, two nearby thrift stores, get free books from publishers, and pick up a few that other profs have left on the department shelves to give away (I teach at two universities). Add in purchases from used bookstores and amazon, and I'm a happy book magnet.

>>13730691
Yeah, I really liked Infante's 'Three trapped tigers', was blown away by the groove in that book. Can't wait to give 'Infante's inferno' a chance, hoping I'll like it just as much.

>>13732178
The sword was a gift

I don't know if this will post sideways

>>13729131
I'm pretty sure he's one of us. I think I saw the first thread which he started with the pic, and then when others started making fun of his appearance he got really angry and defensive which was even more hilarious, pretty sure you can find the thread on warosu.

House of Leaves
More than one philosophy book by different authors
Nothing found by using ctrl+f on /lit/ main page
Stop posting evidence of your mediocrity

>>13732197
I actually read about 100 pages and it seems you reached the same conclusion I have. I'm not that well-read on Jung (mostly wikipedia) so it was pretty difficult to get through.

I'll check out Modern Man in search of a Soul! Are there any topics in particular that you liked in it?

>>13728367
Castrate yourself

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>>13724748
my haul today. cost me $2.75 in total

>>13734569
All Quiet on the Western Front is a great book

>>13734569
>Coetzee
Nice, and that's a good book of his, just read it a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

>>13734606
will it help me decide whether or not to join the military ? i have been considering commissioning for a year now and i am torn.

>>13734569
prime haul, godly haul

>>13734663
Well it's definitely not meant to get anyone excited to join the infantry. That's for sure.

I have had many of these books for a long time. The one on the left would take monster concentration to complete, very fine print.

>>13734663
What's shown in that book comes from a very different era. WW1 was a hellish nightmare and this book shouldn't be used as a guidebook for joining. Use it to learn about the conditions and life of the soldiers instead.

>>13735382
What am I even supposed to take away from Tao Te Ching? I read it a while back and literally understood nothing.

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>>13735421
thank you :)

>>13724748
>The Anti-Fascist Handbook
Cringe. Imagine buying in to the commodification of anti-fascism.

>>13737256
>falling for the obvious photoshop

>>13729487
>Mary Beard

No thx.

>>13738589
James Mason is gay for Jews, but he sure as hell hates niggers

Juat ordered these lovely little darlings. All and all they cost me less than $40. If I would have ordered them from Swedish publishers the price would have exceeded $100. Thank you America for making reading affordable.

>>13724748
that image physically makes me sick. Queers are the fucking worst

All in all, a good haul for the day, bought them at a flea market so I paid next to nothing.

>>13728149
Based overflow

As a fedora-wearing pseudointellectual, I find it difficult to reconcile my desire to have a book shelf that will make me look smart and cultured to my friends with my desire to be able to Ctrl+F bits of information in the 1/3rd of my books that I've actually read. E-books seem so much more convenient to be honest.

>>13739070
Hello swedebro, nice picks there

r8

>>13739070
lol scandicels on suicide watch. yall dont even have fuckin functional thrift stores LOL! 40 dollars for this even with your "god tier" wages isabsolutely devastating. when will eurocels recognize that the american labor model is superior, all that we lack is decent zoning law and land value tax.

>>13725331
This looks like what the serial kidnapper, and murderer from Silence of the Lambs would read, every single book, whilst wearing his victims faces. This makes me very afraid of you anon

>>13733962
I remember the thread. And I remember him posting something like "I'm still the best dressed person here" when people were mocking him.

>>13739070
Do you use adlibris? It's pretty cheap. Norwegian here

>>13724861
You bought the best Saramago book.

>>13739907
Henon kirjat. Classic litterature will stand the test of time.
>>13740147
No, unless you live in a big city all you have at hand is a state owned bookstore called "the academic bookstore" and all they supply you with is "approved" litterature. In Sweden there is also only one publisher making sure that mist books printed in swedish cost about $30 each.
>>13740345
I use bokus. They send books relatively fast compared to Adlibris. Bokus also have a very easy discount for students "bokstud19". The previous year it was "bokstud18".

>>13725529
>Reading Ibsen AND Hamsun
Hamsun rolling in his grave. Nice collection and editions, kinda jealous.

Ya'll fuckers excited?!

bump

Muh books

The orange one is a self bound collection of every Italian Futurist writing I could find, and the beige one is The Doctrine of Fascism, also rebound.

>>13743832
Kinda just threw the books up there with categorizing

Hail Caesar

>>13738486
T R A N N Y
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>>13743926
Really nice collection. But damn dude you couldn't get a shelf?

Just curious, why do you guys buy books?

>>13727795
My absolute BOY also using milkcrates as a bookshelf

Late to this thread but holy shit, all this for a total of $3. At a navy base thrift store. All books .50¢ or five for a dollar. Stoked for Dreadnaught and the Caro books in particular. Don't usually horde books but god damn.

>>13724869
based at the Blanchot reader

>>13745260
To impress girls when they come round one day

>>13725323
>>13725331
Have you actually read any of these, or do you just buy books to stack on your shelves?

>>13729525
sorry Anon but you need some ban time

>>13730630
Tell me about it
I got my favorite copy of Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces at a Salvation Army. My stupid university wanted me to pay 60$ for a new copy, but I just used this 50c 1970s-copy instead and it was perfect.
I'd post a picture but right now its packed away

>>13740201
>"reads books"
>puts decorative bullcrap in front of books
okay kiddo

I'm traveling right now so I could only bring a few
Borges & Hamilton generally come with me everywhere
L'Amour was given to me by my dead uncle
and the rest are just, like, my current reading, man.
Oh btw this penguin edition of Lovecraft is one of my favorite finds, it has an awesome cover which I'll post in a second

>>13747689
I found this picture online, it's in better condition than mine
the painting is Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion, by John Martin.

>>13739109
have sex and ponder why you didn't

>>13738589
Where's your Northwest Quartet novels?

>>13727795
>Gravity's Rainbow
Cringe

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