/lit/ - Literature

>>14965034
I like your miniatures, anon!
Would get into them, alas, it is time and money i do not have

>>14965068
It is a sink of both those things, to be sure. They're helping to keep me sane at present though, along with the books and my guitar.

>>14965034
I also got those few Scott Pilgrim books in 2010. Shortly after I borrowed three fifths of it to a colleague. Never got them back.

>>14965034
>Aubrey-Maturin series
Absolutely based OP!

Why’d you guys shill Infinite Jest so hard? It’s such a slog

>>14965131
scott pilgrim is very much a relic of its time desu. I probably wouldn't replace them if they disappeared on me but they serve as a nostalgic milestone of sorts for me and mine.

>>14965136
viewed as a single work, probably my favorite novel of all time.

>>14965164
I felt the same way about Gravity's Rainbow. Seemed like there was an interesting story but totally buried under masturbatory by-english-major-for-english-major prose

>>14965193
same

>>14965034

Reasonably good collection of books, but that shitty fiberboard bookcase isn't going to last long.

>>14965131
>Scott Pilgrim

>>14965034
shameless self-bump with my (mostly) nonfiction case.

The medievalist stuff is my wife's

>>14965781
post case

>>14965131
mine got thrown out by me ;-(

>>14965915
>Megg, Mogg and Owl
>Prophet
excellent taste

>>14965839
This is my current case. I left most of my books at my parent's house.

>>14965964
a stack is fine too. We share an affinity for goth/pulp genre.

>>14965034
I really want that edition of Jurassic Park.

>>14965988
I got it at B&N. Some of their hardcover editions are absurdly nice. The copy of Dune is from the same line.

>>14965164
>>14965209
>filtered

>>14965940
ty lol i was a comic snob in high school

Unemployed NEET pls no bully.
Too poor to get that many good things unless I find them at thrift.

unemployed NEET pls bully, I get off on that

>>14965164
Pretty based selection here

My (growing) nautical fiction shelves.

>>14966210
What's this Ramage series? I've never heard of it.

>>14966210
>nautical fiction
extremely based, what's your favorites?

>>14966231
It’s a Napoleonic nautical fiction series in the same tune as Hornblower. Hornblower author CS Forester actually named Ramage author Dudley Pope as his successor.

>>14966256
Melville, Conrad, and O’Brien are all among my favorite writers.

>>14966261
Welp, I have another series to read for my dose of wooden ships and iron men

>>14966029
Hack your 3DS, it's really easy.

>>14966714
Already done good shit, too bad theres no more 3ds games

>>14966622
At that point you should just chuck them on the ground and be done with it, at least that won't collapse on top of you when you want to read some lermontov

>>14966210
Not fiction but have you read Sailing Alone Around the World?

>>14966861
Also, Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before The Mast

>>14966029
>too poor to buy literature
>enough money to buy manga and video games

I am not bullying, I am just disappointed

>>14965034
I have that same Poe edition. Nice.

>>14965788
so many books that I want from this shelf kek first shelf I'm jelous about

>>14966922
like what? I have to judge your interests

>>14966934
Oh I fucked up I meant the shelf below yours (>>14965915). From yours I'd love to own Graves' The Greek Myths, is it good?

>>14966968
It's a little dry, being written in the 40s or 50s, but it does some interesting stuff. Graves tries to tie the myths to concrete historical influences, a la centaurs being derived from steppe archers, that sort of thing.
People still seem to respect it but I'm not sure how citeable it would be if you care about that. It's a good source of uncensored greek myths in all their brutality though.

>>14966095
This ones looks nonhuman...does anybody else get that feeling?

Cold, grey, silver: no person can have such tastes to only have two types of editions on his collection.

>>14966095
choo choo

>>14967006
What if he was the owner of the publisher and only uses it to satisfy his own tastes?

>>14967072
The orange and green ones are penguins, their owner can probably afford nicer editions

>>14967072
>What if he was the owner of the publisher and only uses it to satisfy his own tastes?
Only reasonable explication, thanks anon. Weird, none the less.

An old bookstore I frequented for 4 years closed down recently. My last trip there was sentimental.

>>14967173
>generic /lit/recs, weebshit and mein kampf
says it all really

>>14965788
is your wife single?

>>14965034
When you guys look at books on shelves, do you turn your head to the side? Or when you look at them in these pictures, do you rotate the image, or your head or (god forbid) your phone? Just want to see if I am retarded, I will not reveal what I do.

>>14967173
>Not buying books on amazon for cheaper

>>14967413
Based.

>>14967413
>not building your own printing press to make the books yourself

>>14967413
>giving money to b*zos and not supporting your local jazz-enthusiast old man in a used bookshop

disgusting

>>14967402
is your mother?

>>14967413
The books were no more than $5 and I like supporting the local shops.

>>14967413
>tfw fr*gposters are ruining the used book industry

>>14967458
you're doing the lords work anon

>>14965781
what's fkn wrong with scott pilgrim ya cunt

When times are stressful, I can always count on some nice books to take my mind off things.

>>14965788
I like

>>14965164
I like it a LOT!

>>14965034
>Robin McKinley
Based.

>>14967173
wait a minute is that fucking hentai on your bookshelf?

>>14969272
anon, I'm not sure how to tell you this...but your shelf is laying on its side!

>>14965278
>but that shitty fiberboard bookcase isn't going to last long.

I bought a shitty fiberboard bookcase from Ikea for like $12. It's ugly and flimsy. The back is a weird foldup piece of plastic that I first thought was part of the box and was about to throw away. Lol it's part of the furniture.

Fell in love
Got married
Put the bookcase in the gues bedroom
We make babby
Guest bedroom becomes baby room
We move three times
Get divorced
I get the bookcase
Child grows up
I move to the other side of the country
Child gets college degree
Bookcase still with me.
Looks as good as the day I bought it
Still ugly and cheap

Take it from an old man: buy good furniture because the cheap shit will last and haunt you forever.

>>14965164
>Why’d you guys shill Infinite Jest so hard?
because its a giant and "difficult" book

>>14967173
none of them look very read.

>>14969477
shut up you faggot jesus

>>14969459
Here's the bookcase

>>14969495
i'm just sayin

>>14969541
people don't read every book multiple times. i only have like 4 books on my shelf ive read repeatedly

>>14968242
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSKizLRFbTo

>>14967407
I live in a country that has no established standard for the book spine and every publisher does what they want, so it gets quite annoying if you're trying to browse a bookshelf.

>>14969513
I'll be getting an Ikea Hemnes bookcase(s). It's not the most expensive stuff but I think it looks nice.

>>14965989
lel

>>14965989
>doesn't even centre it

Never go half autism

>>14966095
Based autist

>>14966011
Sadly a lot of B&N editions have a ton of typos

>>14969619
Hemnes are good. I used them for my plebeian den library: .

>>14969414
Based

>>14966622
> Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Was this required reading or did you read out of self interest ?

>>14967173
why do you have 2 copies of catcher in the rye?

Rate my shit bros

>>14970052
Please move Joyce to a safe place away from the rest of that trash.

>3rd year phil student

>>14970052
it started kinda ok on the top shelf but you should be shot for the bottom two

Hey anons, any recs on bookcases for max storage?
I have small bookcases, but it's not enough for what I have, definitely not what I've left at my dad's house.
Getting bookcases is my next project, and I was thinking about pic related from IKEA

>>14965788
Quality.

>>14970383
Billy is decent if you don't want to load it down too much, or don't need the extra height. Hemnes and Lommarp are good for thin cases. I used Liatorps upstairs, and they're monsters: really big, very solid.

>>14970052
Based on the telomere book you may be interested in the episode of Eric Weinstein's podcast where he and his brother talk about how issues with the telomeres of lab mice may be having a disastrous effect on the effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs. His brother apparently made some pretty crazy discoveries which ended up being buried, and Blackburn was supposed to have played a role in it.

>>14970467
Thanks! I'll start calculating cost.

And kek at the Nancy Drew

>>14966861
>>14966870
I have not. Thanks for the rec.

>>14965131
Give away books at your own peril. Always understand that you might not get them back. But, give them out regardless, because sharing is caring and a good book likes to travel.

>>14965781
pseud

>>14966210
Have you read Naomi Novik's Temeraire series? It's Napoleonic-Era naval stuff from the POV of an English captain.

With, um, dragons. It's basically Master & Commander with dragons. It's actually kind of cool how they explain the logistics of the aerial battles that take place directly overhead of the naval battles.

just a small journal
I don't have a bookshelf.

>>14970678
>Defending Scott niggergrim

>>14969273
I just finished Station Eleven, it was pretty fun as post-apoc books go but it annoyed me how connected the protagonists ended up.

>>14969667
Nice King collection. Is his son worth reading at all?

>>14970052
how's that chord bible? I have the basic open chords down and don't really know where to go from there

>>14970467
>peanuts
>HG Wells
>the Oxford Annotated Bible
I like you. I've been wanting that bible too

>>14970951
nobody cares about your opinion specifically

>>14969578
have sex.

>>14971596
>have sex

>>14971952
i don't get it sorry i don't browse /pol/ and /r9k/, i read books

>>14971062
I haven't actually read Station Eleven yet, but my wife enjoyed it.
Joe Hill is decent, though I like his Locke & Key comic series better than his books generally.
The Oxford Annotated and The Other Bible are goldmines, definitely.

>>14972180
>i don't get it sorry i don't browse /pol/ and /r9k/, i read books

>>14972403

>>14969578
this was pretty great

>>14972443
Here is a great book.

>>14965131
Tfw this is what I imagine a German having

>>14965209
Brainlet

>>14972466
hey why don't you go fuck yourself pleb

>>14972512
I think I hit a nerve.

>>14972573
nah just hadn't had my coffee yet. got any actual book recs? x

>>14965034
get rid of the disgusting unpainted miniatures, or at least paint them

>>14972612
It depends, what sort of books you like?

>>14968242
that pristine spine on IJ though

>>14966622
And the Virgin. Based book case. Don't change, Anon. Keep it messy.

>>14972656
idk man you tell me I've read a lot. I like anything good.

>>14973131
>Strait is the gate
>The Moon Over the Mountain
>Dogra Magra
>No Longer Human
>2666
>The Stranger
>Dune
>The Society of Spectacle
>The Monk
>Solaris
>The conspiracy against the human race
>The Crawling chaos
>1Q84
You probably have already read some of these ones, but whatever.

>>14972718
>thinks spine damage is actually a thing
look at all the spines you pleb, it's called knowing how to hold a book.

>>14973266
ty for
>Strait is the gate
>The Moon Over the Mountain
>The Crawling chaos

>>14973287
Any recommendations?

>>14973266
>Strait is the gate

a very tragic book

>>14965034
test

Will have to get rid of some of these soon. :(

this is the top of my bookcase

>>14973466
Realized a couple of the cooler poetry collections don't have spines, oh well. Worth mentioning that Sharon Olds book is dogshit.

>>14973305
>Voss
>Herzog
>Dead Souls
>Beware of Pity
>Oblomov
>The Reivers
>Sabbath's Theatre

>>14966056
potato quality. try harder.

bump

>>14970220
>rotating the image so the titles are easily readable

Great stuff

>>14967407
Spending time in bookshops has taught me to just read titles sideways instead of turning my head

>>14966029
Yuck. Please leave this board for a year.

>>14967173
This is the prime example of a shelf created by /lit/ charts. Disgusting.

I've been reading Kerouac.

>>14969272
Very based, very similar to my tastes. Try out Flashman, Cicero, Dumas, Hitchens (Peter) and Seneca.

Jack Kerouac

Just one picture.

>>14967402
Kek

>>14975014
glad someone else finds this as appalling as i.

>>14976280
cringe

>>14972625
Got fuckall else to do while I'm home

>>14969306
That'd be my wife's. As is Name of the Rose.

>>14965915
>"shelf"
>really just boards and boxes
based educated proletarian

>>14965989
boomer detected

>>14975106
what's his best? only read OTR

>>14976771
To me Dharma Bums. And the initial part of Desolation Angels.

my library’s too fucked to show off atm but here’s my ‘up next’ shelf

>>14975001
NO BULLY

>>14965034
With all that Gibson I am surprised you haven't got a copy of Fanged Noumena!

>>14965034
its weird how many books we have in common, like looking at my own books shelf, i even have the same editions of lotr

>>14967413
Amazon is more expensive than local stores at this point. Bezos ass fucks everyone on shipping.

>>14965164
>edith hamilton edition of mythology

ok bro we get it

>>14978160
Based

>>14978160
Based

>>14965034
Just got my bookcases set up on the new house

>>14980201
You have some nice hard cover editions, did you buy them used or new?

>>14980282
All used. New Folio and Eastons are over-priced.

>>14967173
ok, based