/lit/ - Literature

>>14646605
I like your edition of Passage to India

>>14646605
>litter
Am I correct to assume the author doesn't explore the fact most people littering the streets are niggers and pakis?
Funny how you don't see fried chicken boxes tossed around in the suburbs...

>>14646629

>>14646630
If you live in America that makes sense but in aus and nz you will see chicken boxes in the shitty suburbs full of coconuts (Polynesians)

>>14646629
Thanks! Look up “The Great Writers Library.” There are about 56 of these beautiful leather backs that they do, all classics, plus they’re secondhand so they’re extremely cheap.

>>14646630
Dalrymple is borderline Reactionary. He doesn’t touch on the race issue, but in every other regard he’s pretty based.

>>14646605
Pls respond

>>14646605
Bumping the shelf thread

>>14647999
Nice trips. Why do you have two copies of the hobbit?

>>14649044

>>14646629
nice. i like it

>>14646605
>Gunslinger Girl
Not surprised that you also have the Communist Manifesto.

>>14649048
>>14649044
looks good but i imagine it was expensive

>>14649004
The art and different editions. The yellow one is a Canadian edition and the other is a mass market-sized hardback. I have a bunch more other copies. (Also thank you based anon.)

>>14649065
It's about five years effort

>>14649071
nice
how much money did it cost

>>14649044
>>14649048
>Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Newton
Based.
>Kline
So-so.
>Kiyosaki
Embarrassing.

>>14649087
I guess 2500$ perhaps a little more

>>14649091
I don't have good understanding of how to manage personal finance, do you have a recommendation

>>14649096
Kiyosaki is not about personal finance, if you ask me. It's about "get rich quick because of course anyone can take advantage of a housing bubble in Hawaii like I did when I was younger".

Personal finance is all about not wasting money on junk you do not need and putting your savings in S&P 500 (except for those who think they are smarter than anyone else and can time the markets) or real estate. You don't really need a book for that, but try something by Eric Tyson if you really have to.

>>14646605
first time i've seen Linklater on /lit/
his book Magnus Merriman is a cozy read

Just moved out so this is my shelf til I get more books and grab some more from my room at my parents.

>>14649123
>trying too hard.jpg

>>14649139
/board

>>14646605

>>14649153
what's francis of the filth like?

>>14649069
Ofc. whatever floats your boat, as it is a classic after all

>>14649170
man, not that good. his comedy style doesn't work on paper. maybe if i was able to pay attention while reading it i woulda spotted some cool lore stuff but it just didn't get my attention and i dropped it 2/3rds in

>>14649139
hey man im trying my best :( I’m reading for what feels like the first time since i was a kid so I don’t really know what I enjoy so I’m trying a bit of everything. Got anything you’d recommend?

>>14649153
I'm triggered by how the books are facing different directions!

>>14649175
this guy fucks

>>14649204
try anything, different genres and writers ... and don't be too hard on yourself; you don't have to finish a book you're not enjoying.
i'd recommend speculative fiction in general if you liked The Lord of The Rings

>>14649205
srry earth quake knocked em around

>>14649139
>tolkien, brave new world, plato
>trying too hard
¿?

>>14649368
Everything that is not John Green is pretentious tryhard bullshit

>>14649896
How did you like Artemis? I prefer The Martian but I think it was still really nice, Weirs best work is still The Egg though. Goddamn.

I spend my neetbux on buying expensive books currently I was planning on buying philosophy books for others like donating to a library but I felt it was naive.

>>14649204
Hey Anon. I would recommend some Marx (1844 manuscripts, Gotha programme, Capital...), Nietzsche (Twilight, Genealogy and Beyond Good n Evil) and dystopia (or anti-utopias) like Brave New World, 'We' and 'God is Politcally Correct')

>>14646605
All my books are in greek so there isn't any point in posting them since other anons wont be able to read the titles

>>14649976
Homosexual Plato/Aristotle fanfiction in greek?!?

>>14649932
>How did you like Artemis?
I haven't read either yet, will definitely try get on those this year

>Weirs best work is still The Egg though.
Thanks anon, I'll look out for it

>>14649976
postare re faggot

>>14650548
Based

>>14649044
How's that George Washington Quadrilogy?

>>14650548
where did you get hunter?

>>14649044
>Martin Luther Kang
Wew

>>14650782
I bought it from the National Alliance site

>>14650628
>What's Your Poo Telling You
That one is a great read.

>>14651271
My sister gave it to me for Christmas ha

>>14647999
How did you find Neil Gaiman's Norse mythology? I listened to it as an audiobook and quite enjoyed it.

>>14650628
Some good christcore

>>14651798
Thanks! Only book missing from the pic is God, History, and Dialectic Vol One by Joseph P. Farrell. Highly recommend it for his contrasting of the Eastern and Latin (what he calls the first and second Europes) ordo theologiae and his detailing of the Hellenistic influence and the insertion of metaphysical dialectics in western theology.

>>14646635
I see you like Tomas Pynchon

>>14647999
Post the cds on top

>>14649976
Ok, no one gives a shit.

>>14649044
Looks boring as shit

>>14646629
>J R
holy fucking based

>>14649044
Can i see that Decline of the West you have? I've really been wanting to get that but i don't know what's the best edition

File size was too large. Did some cleaning up today. 1/2

>>14654052
need more room. 2/2

>>14647999
>know your bible - all 66 books explained
>all 66 books
>bible
>66 books
>all

Top shelf is mostly unread new buys, only started up reading alot again in the last 6 months.

>>14654806
bait

>>14649153
>bill cosby
>the god delusion
Stopped reading there

>>14654806
>The Outsider and The Stranger
Very cringe for owning both. I bet you thought they were two different books.

I’m getting my first big book shelf and I’m wondering how to organise it. Do you have every book on the same shelf in order? Do you separate fiction and non-fiction? My non-fiction tends to be art books, which are typically larger and require higher shelves. I’m just curious what way you organise them. I’m thinking alphabetical by surname, chronological within the author.

These rare just three shelves of the whole bookcase

A fair few stacks where I can’t fit them on my shelves, but this is about the size of it

1/2

2/2

>>14655873
I like the YSL picture. Who is it?

>>14655873
Very nice. I like your apartment (I'm assuming)

>tfw everyone has cool books in french, sanskrit, german, greek, japanese etc etc

>tfw monolingual

>>14657118
I'm not entirely sure who the model is, but the poster is an enlarged version of the 2007 YSL 'Love' postcard, the last he sent before his death, if I remember right. I bought it when I was visiting his house in Marrakech, but you can get it online too.
>>14657261
Thank you! You assumed correctly aha.

>>14646605
Too many shelves, but here's some books I bought last week.

>>14657712
And the week before. I love our local library bookstores ($1-2 per book).

>>14650041
Here you go, anon:
https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI

Poor camera, I confess, but not poor books

>>14658236
2/2

dangit why does it flip like that

>>14651466
Indigo's website.
>>14651968
I'm at a buddy's right now so this is off the top of my head, but:
>Japanese pressing of The Beatles Live at the BBC (the bottom 2CD set)
>Teepee press of Dopesmoker by Sleep (digi copy)
>Kaleidoscope Dreams by Black Magick SS (yellow CD)
>an old CDr of family photos (on top)
>not sure about the other one

>>14655728
>Read The Stranger.. hmm not bad
>Order online without reading the product descriptions
>The Plague
>The Outsider

Pretty easy to do considering the titles of his other books.

>>14658413
I meant did you enjoy it, not literally how did you find it

>>14646635
WHICh is ur favorite?

>>14658722
Oh that's funny. I really liked it considering the only other book I read last year was The Little Prince.

>>14655803

show me more

>>14646605

I don't feel like posting my shelves, t b h.

So here's my short term to-read list in physical form. Critique of Pure Reason and Finnegans Wake on the left side.

bump

>>14659408
paperbird is that you?

>>14660217
nah, is that a namefag?

>>14660250
nah, he's a booktuber who likes beckett.

>>14660257
Gotcha

Beckett is fucking amazing though. I'm reading Molloy right now and it's some of the best lit I've ever read, especially as the writing mimics my own thoughts from when I've been manic in the past

>>14646605

Very hard to capture in a single photo

>>14646605

>>14649204
Don't let him bully you. /lit/ used to have a wiki with basic book recommendations. I've saved a bunch of charts that anons made over the years.

>>14649048
I think that might be all the Oxford World's Classics currently in print. Who's your second favorite publisher?

>>14649044
yeah i'd fuck this shelf

>>14658790
The Rings of Saturn bu W.G. Sebald

>>14660981
>the top shelf
oh jesus fuck anon please fix that it's making me uncomfortable

>>14655790
Fiction shelf is alphabetical by author, nonfiction is by subject

>>14661695
Thanks, not a bad idea. I think because I only have one shelving unit I might have to put fiction at the top and non-fiction at the bottom with a gap in the middle because otherwise the gaps in shelves will be enormous.

>>14646605
My threads. Cba to reupload the pics
>>14662247

>>14659408
How do you find Finnegans Wake? I really want to read it but I know it’ll be pointless.

>>14662877
It's great. There's a reading group that I go to sometimes where we just read one page and talk about it for 2 hours (reading the page at the beginning and end of the session).

I've started and stopped several times partially because I'm not very well positioned or "ready" to read it yet. But I think the musicality of it is something everyone can appreciate at any phase of their life, even kids.

I'd recommend the usual advice of reading it aloud. It creates this effect of feeling like you're reading for the first time and trying to sound the words out all over again.

>>14662938
I think Ulysses is the best thing I’ve ever read but FW just seems a step too far. But I know I’ll bite the bullet one day. It’ll take me months to finish, but I suppose it did take Joyce 17 years to write it.

>>14659159
There you go. This are the lower three shelves. Note that this is the “non-fiction” department of my bookcase. To the left are more shelves with non-fiction; or what I consider to be Literature in the proper sense of the word

>>14663077
Did you read those Jean Paul Friedrich Richter volumes? What is he like as an author? I can't read german and he isn't translated but Thomas Carlyle was a huge autistic fan of him so I would like to know your opinion

Where do you guys buy books online from? I don't want to support the technodemon called Amazon if I can avoid it.

>>14663275
I wondered this recently as well. I hate paying full price, but also don’t want to support Amazon. I love book shops but it’s hard to justify paying RRP for a book.

>>14663275
>>14663321
ebay has very good deals. that or your local library should have books for sale that you can get for a buck or two. amazon used (fuck you, it works)

>>14655873
cute
>Wyndham Lewis
based

>>14655873
>call of duty
cringe. where's bloodborne?

>>14646605
Trash
>>14646629
Decent
>>14647999
Based
>>14649044
Based as fuck
>>14649048
Based as fuck
>>14649123
Based aussie
>>14649153
Based
>>14649175
Embarrassing
>>14649896
Gay
>>14663077
Nice

>>14663808
I've never played it anon, would you recc?

>>14646605
needs reorganisation asap. anyone have any ideas on how to organise shelves??

>>14663260
I just recently bought that edition in a second hand bookshop. That said, a couple of months ago I started reading one of his novellas (I had another edition back then), because I wanted to read his shorter prose first before taking on such behemoths like Siebenkäs, Titan, or Flegeljahre. I didn’t manage to finish even that short novella. Let’s say it like this: reading Jean Paul requires the highest degree of understanding and mastering of the German language. It’s even harder than Goethe

>>14664814
yes. it's very good, even better than demons/dark souls.

Finishing up the last 4 chapters of tigers in the mud then moving on to Napoleon in Russia, just got that one today and read a bit into the middle, it’s going to be good.

>>14665128
It is not better than dark souls 1
>>14664814
Bloodbourne is -alright-

Please excuse the Barnes and noble classics for the dostoevsky editions, trying to get them replaced

>>14665862
why would you apologize for owning a certain edition?

>>14665954
well i don't like the look of them, and they're all translated by constance garnett, who i've noticed has a tendency to make many characters who should sound different, sound alike. most of them were gifts anyways.

>>14665862
2/2

>>14664833
Alphabetically by author's name of course.

>>14660332
plz someone give me a (you)

>>14660332
i never could get into lovecraft, despite borrowing his stories from a roommate in college. do you have an easy starting point in mind for someone like me?

>>14666216
I still haven't finished so no, sorry :<

Of that collection, 12 books are unread.

>>14666124
Nice bunch of books you got there anon, I literally just started reading the first couple pages of permutation city since I got it today, I like it so far.

>>14646605

>>14649371
Cope harder please

>>14649371
Kill yourself

just starting to get back into reading this is missing many books that I left at home after moving though

r8, h8 and give me pointers what to get next

Started only recently

>>14655873
Put all your books on those shelves, even if there are some on their sides on top of the rest. Put the plant and bottles on the fireplace (or recycle your wine bottles anon). It is more restful to have a decluttered centre piece to your room.

>>14663808
>>14664814
>>14665128
>>14665743
I notice you have CoD for Xbox and another anon recommended Bloodborne but that is only for PS4. If you have both though, sell your Xbox and all its games and dedicate your life to mastering Bloodborne. It is as good as DS1 (they are within a hair's breadth of each other at least) and you should play both.

>>14665967
They look alright anon, I literally give zero shits about editions so long as they are not movie adaptation ones. Translation is an issue. I heard Garnett is pretty solid though?

>>14664833
This >>14666104
Except when it comes to a series, then put them is date order (publication, not chronology).

>>14666672
Thanks. Permutation city is fun, I think you'll enjoy it.

>>14667937
Perhaps you are right, the wine bottles are full though, don't worry. I'll also look into getting a PS$ to play Bloodborne on.

>>14649939
>expensive books
>it's all penguin paper backs

My shelf is a mix of mine and my partner's books. Starting to overflow up top with the latest additions.

>>14664833
This is the level of collecting I'm careening towards.

>>14665862
This is the level of collection that I miss. Feels easier to organise in a pleasant way.

>>14668451
You didn’t even read half of that, nor will you ever

>>14646605
A Dickens a day keeps the doctor away.

>>14668451
>gun germs and steel
pseud

>>14668529
I'm addicted to buying new shit but I've forced myself to stop and work on the backlog yes.

>Post ‘em!
Just for you, Opie.

>tfw only just starting to get into reading and already have a backlog but still want a huge bookshelf

>>14669837
You only would ever need about 30 books
That’s enough to occupy your free time for a decade unless you have no life. Or unless you read 100 page paperbacks filled with neat pictures.

People with giant bookshelves with hundreds of 500+page books are fucking liars this day in age, likely inherited by a dead grandfather and just put up for the hypothetical talking points a stranger on the internet might give. So don’t be a poser. Buy a book if you are genuinely interested in reading it, not because you -think- you may read it one day or someone might think you are cool and mysterious if you have the odyssey on your shelf, pristine condition.

>>14670650
I’m gonna edit that and say around 40 books to last you a decade

30 seems a bit too slow and Marie kondo-ish

Everything between Plato's Republic and The Great Gatsby is new, paid for with gift cards I won last year. I still have 40NZD left, any reccomendations would be nice. I still need to get a copy of The Silmarillion but they don't have any copies in any of my local bookstores for some reason.

Not pictured: Carl Jung - Man and his Symbols (still being shipped) and Complete Works of Shakespeare (to be borrowed from my parents)

>>14646605
I'm having a horrible day but I love you all and only wish that the suffering god beholds is put all in one basket, that being me. Spreading his power thin is unfair, even that, its equal as opposed to thin, what a horrible place we live in. May he strike me as I am now, what a horrible man.

>>14670778
>wordsworth editions
did you do that just for the meme, or because they're cheap? that TBK cover-art is hideous.

>>14670808
They were very cheap yeah. I don't really care that much about the art, it could be worse. I would've otherwise been paying upwards of 20 NZD for each of those (more if I wanted all of the Kafka works that are in that volume), compared to the 8 I paid. Figured it a good deal, even if a trade-off for quality.

>>14668548
How’s Suttree?

>>14668539
>no Our Mutual Friend
>no Bleak House

>>14667782
Von wo kommst Du?

>>14672431
Berlin aber bitte nicht doxxen aber wenn du zufällig gute sencond hand Buchläden hier kennst, die gute Bücher haben sag bescheid

>>14668451
> my partner

I'm too cheap and lazy to buy a shelf. I just stack my shit on a piece of kitchen furniture. The books go three rows deep.
>how do you read the ones in the bac-
I don't.

bimp

Rate my new shelf lads.

>>14674592
haven't read a single one of those except shakespeare and probably never will

>>14646630
Never been in a white ghetto, I see

>>14673809
Where did you get that Everyman edition of Rabelais? I can’t seem to find one like it.