/lit/ - Literature

>>15299551
I'm sorry but if I see Christian and religious stuff on your shelf, it immediately tells me you are a midwit.

>>15299558

there's a lot of good critical lit you'd be missing, then
weird standard to just hold and universalize

>>15299551
Is there a book that will make me believe in god?

>>15299558
tip your fedora harder

Someone, post your shelf

i wanna look at your books

>>15299551
>yes, my favorite website it reddit.com/r/atheism, how could you tell?

>>15299551
Jesus Christ spiritpleb
Someone post something good

Whats rapture been up to? Anyone got pics of his collection? Seen mention of him lately, haven’t seen his stuff in a while

>>15299558
You're an idiot.
I don't follow any Semitic religion, and I find their literature relevant. You miss the point of literature, retard.

>>15300009
>rapture
rapture is LARP.
i have a unique perspective on this, followed it from the beginning years ago, happened upon insights throughout. trust me, this 'rapture' figure is an amalgam of one guy pretending and a splintered set of people responding and trolling.

here's a random past thread for old time's sake, though. had fun in those:
>>/lit/thread/3883635#p3887064

pic related/unrelated. nice collection, not mine.

>>15300297
thank you for posting

>>15299558
midwit?
thats generous, dont you think?

>>15299955
but i will anger the pop history gods if i do so

i will burn in eternal fires for having a book on the fall of Constantinople or a biography on napoleon

>>15300297
Wtf is this quasi “I know something you don’t” bullshit
If you have info on rapture share it
Last thread about it said he lived in Boston- I’m around there. Would love to get real information and hook up with him if possible.

>>15299558
>Paradife Loft
>The Divine Comedy

Seethe harder, midwit

>>15300534
but anon if you post, you will make me very happy

>>15300297
great shelf

I can post a list if you guys want. Camera is too shit to grab them properly.

>>15302586
Post it

>>15300555
Rapture is pure LARP
Real library is of some wealthy patrician in Cambridge, Mass.
Don’t think he’s actually affiliated with any formal institution
Positive he does not post on here

>>15302586
>>15302627
Adams - The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adams - Watership Down
Aeschylus - The Oresteia
Aesop - Complete Fables
Aristophanes - Complete Works
Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics
Asimov – Foundation
Augustine - Confessions
Aurelius – Meditations
Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Balzac - Pere Goriot
Banks - Consider Phlebas Trilogy
Banks - The Wasp Factory
Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
Bellow - Herzog
Beowulf
Bernhard - Correction
Boccaccio - The Decameron
Bolano – 2666
Borges – Ficciones
Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Buck - The Good Earth
Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita
Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Calvino - Invisible Cities
Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
Camus - The Plague
Camus – The Stranger
Card - Ender's Game
Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Celine – Journey to the End of the Night
Cervantes – Don Quixote
Chandler - The Big Sleep
Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov - Selected Stories
Clarke - Childhood's End
Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Coelho - The Alchemist
Conrad – Heart of Darkness
Dante – The Divine Comedy
Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
DeLillo – White Noise
Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel
Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dickens – Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas – The Three Musketeers
Eco – The Name of the Rose
Ellis - American Psycho
Ellison – Invisible Man
Epic of Gilgamesh
Euripides - Ten Plays
Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Flaubert - Madame Bovary

>>15302586
>>15302666
Gibson – Neuromancer
Goethe – Faust
Gogol - Dead Souls
Golding – Lord of the Flies
Grass - The Tin Drum
Haldeman - The Forever War
Hamsun - Hunger
Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller – Catch-22
Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms
Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
Herbert – Dune
Hesse - Steppenwolf
Hesse – Siddhartha
Homer – The Iliad and Odyssey
Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Hugo – Les Miserables
Huxley – Brave New World
Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Jordan - The Wheel of Time
Joyce – Ulysses
Junger - Storm of Steel
Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Kafka – The Trial
Kazantzakis – Zorba the Greek
Kerouac - On the Road
Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
London - The Call of the Wild
Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Lowry - The Giver
Lowry - Under the Volcano
Machiavelli - The Prince
Mann – The Magic Mountain
Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marx - Capital
Mccarthy - The Road
McCarthy – Blood Meridian
McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McEwan – Atonement
Melville – Moby Dick
Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Milton - Paradise Lost
Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Mishima - The temple of the golden pavilion
Murakami - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Nabokov – Lolita
Nabokov – Pale Fire
Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathustra
Orwell – 1984
Orwell – Animal Farm
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Pessoa – The Book of Disquiet
Plato – The Republic
Proust – In Search of Lost Time
Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
Rand – Atlas Shrugged
Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Robinson - Gilead
Roth - The Human Stain

>>15302586
>>15302679
Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
Saramago - Blindness
Sebald - The Rings of Saturn
Seth - A Suitable Boy
Shakespeare - Complete Works
Shelley – Frankenstein
Sophocles - Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus
Soseki - Kokoro
Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Stoker - Dracula
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tolkien - The Hobbit
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Tolstoy – War and Peace
Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Updike - Rabbit, Run
Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Virgil – The Aeneid
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
Wallace – Infinite Jest
Wells – The Time Machine
Wells – War of the Worlds
White - Charlotte's Web
Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams - Stoner
Wolfe - Shadow & Claw
Woolf – To the Lighthouse

what are some good bookshelves to order online? preferably wood/oak.

Any thoughts?

>>15302666
>>15302679
>>15302696
It is ok, but seems pretty vanilla to me desu

>>15299551

>>15302737
Not bad

>>15300297
How are the basic works of Aristotle ? I'm considering getting it but I've heard that most of the works are abridged , so does that affect the reading experience ?

>>15302696
>>15302679
>>15302666
thanks for posting
but consider pastebin next time bro

>>15302737
is the lovecraft collection any good? I've been looking at picking up one but the price makes me hesitant.

>>15302699
Try eBay or Craigslist or something like that. Often you can find a decent one for relatively cheap.

>>15304108
Not him, but if you're reading Aristotle for the first time I think that abridged editions are probably better (politics and ethics might be exceptions). Unless you have a prof directing your attention to certain selections, it's very easy to get overwhelmed.

>>15300297
i bought an older edition of that mh abrams glossary of literary terms because i hate all that new crap. you know what i mean.

>>15304206
Yes, I think so, it has a lot and cool extras. Nice book and nice pages

1/5

>>15305320
2/5

>>15305324
3/5

>>15305328
4/5

>>15305337
5/5

Books without spine text (3 are self bound)

>>15305324

>that jewish Tractatus

I must insist that you remove that volume from your shelf, friend. It contains nothing of value.

>>15305361
Ya I recently found that out for myself

>>15305365

You seem to be slightly branching out into (((opposition research))). In that case, all you have to do is to turn on a television or read any modern bestselling political book (if you want to subject yourself to that type of thing), it would be more useful.

>>15305405
If you mean researching the left, then yes; I’ve been ordering a fuckload of communist/socialist literature as well as a lot of prominent philosophy leading up to those sets of beliefs.

I don’t own a tv

>>15305343
>>15305337
>>15305328
>>15305324
>>15305320
cringe

unironically this is a nice but small library

>>15305620

>>15305627
>candle next to paper

>>15299551
Sup 1/2
https://youtu.be/kZFVmGkWN9s
>>15302737
Read Clark Ashton Smith and Jacques Futrelle.

>>15305726
2/2
>>15305343
I have 2 books without spin text, I hate it.

>>15299558
I’m sorry, but if you don’t see the cultural and literary value in religious texts of every sort you’re a fool. Comparative religion is one of the easiest ways to study existential attitudes and gain insight into how narrative shapes sociological systems.

>>15305640
i guess the shelf needs atmosphere for the purpose of hospitality to non-gfs, or something

Stack for the next two week's aha kill me

>>15305938
The worst part about this is that the file name indicates that it’s a mobile upload. I sincerely hope you downloaded this and it’s not genuine. For your own sake.

>>15306029
Are you new?

the worst part about covid is that thrift stores are closed and i havent bought a cool book in months

>>15306029
lol newfag

>>15302737
/lit/core: the shelf