/lit/ - Literature

>>16495154
These are on the way. I don't own any books besides the Bible. Hopefully I like this "reading for fun" thing.

>>16495154
My parents have a fairly good-sized personal library but it's mostly christian books and bibles

>>16495199
Holy based

>>16495154
I really need a third bookshelf, but I just don't have the room. I have a few other stacks in my closet, sadly.

>let's post books we haven't read

>>16495255
Really nice collection but you could at least fill the shelves at the bottom properly

>>16495270
>insecure poorfag

>>16495270
>not having a vast collection of books to fill your time for years to come

>>16495270
seething 'eReaders are superior, anybody who buys physical books in ${current_year} is dumb' zoomer detected

>Hundreds spent on books are not a function of any present success

Why do they do it?

>>16495316
anybody who spends more than, eh, 7$ or so on a book is wasting their money

>>16495154
That's a great stack OP

>>16495154
My only criticism of your stack is that there is barely any poetry (I actually can't see one book of poetry, minus The Odyssey and The Iliad). 7.8/10

>>16495270
I don't see anything wrong with posting pictures of bookshelves/stacks. There have been plenty of time I have seen a book on someone's bookshelf in these threads that has made me buy it.

>>16496308
That Mason & Dixon hardcover got me erect. Still, there's a lack of poetry, sadly. 8/10

>>16496322
i have a bit on another shelf, but, granted, i do need more

>>16496333
Ooooo, and that For Whom The Bell's Toll hardcover too. Rock hard.

>>16496308
Is that a hardcover edition of Blood Meridian?

>>16495154
Listen, kid, it's a good stack but remember to laugh now and then. It's just as much a part of life as this serious/tragedy bullshit is and trying to impress pseuds.

>>16496339
Yeah it's the Modern Library hardcover, the typesetting and stuff is really good inside it too, very cozy. The dust cover is pretty good too if you're into keeping those on.
>>16496337
For some reason that one doesn't hold its ink, when I was reading it my hands kept getting black splotches on them lol

>>16495255
>Eats, Shoots, & Leaves
Were you a history or english major?

>>16496515
English major. I got that book because it was mandatory for my English 1100 class years ago. I read it once and never got rid of it. Thanks for reminding me to get on that.

>>16496515
Required for me as well but I was a history major. All his/eng majors at my unit had to take a prep class before we could enroll in the 300 level classes and that was one of the books we had to read. Still have that and 'Elements of Style' on my shelf

>>16496592
Meant for >>16496527
clicked the wrong post.

>>16496603
It's not a terrible grammar book. As I was reading it I did get the feeling it was written for a general/average audience. I just have better ones that I go to when I am writing a paper and need to make sure my super duper long sentence with m-dashes and semicolons is grammatically correct haha.

>>16496308
You have big brains bro (or sis), you read about networks and have a decent McCarthy collection. Would like to shittalk with you fellow.

>>16496831
>or sis
there is only one confirmed female who browses /lit/ and she doesn't read McCarthy

>>16496839
No, there are various, I'm a female, people here just write you cannot know what they are.

>>16496955
>I'm a female
uh huh, ok

>>16495184
The one about Magellan I also have in my stack

>>16495330
publishers can legally fix the sales price of their books here in germany, which also influences the one for used versions

Hard mode: no cleaning/tiding up

>>16495255
why do you have 5 ulysses

>Top shelf
French literature
>Bottom shelf
Dictionaries and text- and handbooks related to language.

>>16498144
Epics and mythology.

>>16498151
Greco-Roman authors and books related to their work

>>16498157
>Top shelf
Works on and by Mihály Babits
>Bottom shelf
Secondary sources on different authors

>>16498164
Japanese literature

>>16498170
Chinese literature and books on China

>>16498144
I didn't even know physical dictionaries were still a thing. You know the internet exists right?

Do people unironically go to their bookshelves, pick up a heavy dictionary, and flip through the pages until you (maybe) find the word you're looking for, instead of just typing the word into Google in 3 seconds?

>>16498175
Russian literature

>>16498176
Maybe you don't, but I do.
It makes the whole process more involved and I think it helps with remembering thins better.
(I also sometimes randomly browse them because they're interesting.)

>>16498176
old dictionaries are awesome. it's also interesting to compare old definitions to modern ones.

>>16498170
>>16498175
>Japanese literature
>Chinese literature
all in translation.....

NGMI

>>16495154
mega based, but for your own sake, please get a bookshelf

>>16495154
I'm dusting my books.

.

>>16498144
>>16498151
>>16498157
>>16498164
>>16498170
>>16498175
>>16498182
That's a great library you got there. Also nice NGE books

>>16495154
I read on the computer

>>16495255
If you read one book per week, it would take you approximately 6 years to read all those, not to mention whatever's in your closet, good luck, Anon, I have a similar problem.

>>16498866
Based

I like Everyman’s Library

>>16497794
bullshit you didnt set up that picture
if you genuinely keep that LP in a dusty ass corner of your room you're a fucking idiot

The study from Knives Out is the ideal shelf.

>>16498182
Bázisolt

>>16499621
Köszönöm.
Sajna a sok köcsög jenkinek ez olyan mint disznónak a gyöngy.

>>16499303
thats a lovely collection

>>16495154
nice

>>16499453
>Knives Out
Knock off, mediocre attempt at stealing a Gombrowicz short story. Shitty movie.

>>16497846
Ulysses is my favourite novel and I enjoy collecting different editions.

>>16499453
How do you get to the books behind the wooden arch, though?

>>16500481
based small bookshelf anon

we need more anons with small bookshelves or small collections to post pics. Large libraries and collections are grand and all, but smaller, more intimate and personal collections don't get enough attention.

>>16500499
Liblet cope

>>16499384
But I do tho it's the only one I have

>>16500782
hang it on a wall then you fucking cretin, LP frames are cheap as fuck at ikea

>>16500814
No point its already damaged

>>16500845
well then theres no reason not to hang it then
have RDJ's fat honkin cow titties on proud display

>>16498822

How is the Hitlit? I was looking at Hitler's Second Army.

part 1 - russian literature

>>16500000
checkd and based

mostly manga (im a fucking weeb)
trying to work on that tho (been reading classic novels like dostoeiviski and shit)
anyway, brazilfag here¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>16500915
A collection is a collection, quite impressive anon

>>16500889
eu li Crime e Castigo nessa mesma edição :')
based

>>16500856
Touche

2

3

4

5 thats it, i read mostly in pdf. started collecting in 2019

>>16495154
Here's my current stack, just got the top two, almost done with leibowitz.

Requesting that anon with all the taschen/advertising stuff
I know you are out there, taschenbro

Why do you have two copies of Mrs. Dalloway?

>>16500976
This Ubu's edition of Os Sertões is extraordinary. So beautiful.

>>16500948
If you ever want to upgrade, Editora 34 has the best translation of Faust, with the orignal German facing text. Martin Claret has some pretty editions, but a shaky history regarding the quality of its translations.

>>16495154

>>16497794
why are almost all the books either self help or books about coping with shit? are you doing ok?

>>16501708

>>16495154
Current Bedside stack

>>16501708
eugh

>>16499303
based

montaigne's complete works in everyman's library edition is probably the sexiest book of all time

>>16499303
I like EL too, got about 30 of them.i can never find the whole Proust set new.wondering where you got it?

>>16502436
What did you think of Shirer?

>>16500915
Do you buy all of those new? Are they expensive in Brazil?

>>16502443
Very well researched book, the guy lived in Nazi Germany before the war.
He's a man of his time. He had strange opinions on homosexuals and would regularly lump them into the same category as rapists and peadophiles but aside from that I don't have anything negative to say about it.

>>16502482
What kind of other sources does he use?

Bump

>>16495220
Based shelves, I see you have some comics as well, Do you also browse /co/?

>>16502482
>strange opinions

>>16501348
How much did you pay for that copy of leibowitz?

>>16503307
I think 20ish bucks, maybe less. This copy has my favorite cover art.

>>16496268
his criticism is not if you buy the book but that everyone posts enourmes stacks they don't read.

>>16503374
Dang I wish I could find a cheap copy

novice bookshelf

been trying to get into reading more so top shelf is books i need to read and middle is stuff ive already read

>>16503288
Kek

>>16502969
Good to see you haven't been turned into a brainlet by a falling book yet

>>16495154
Lack of poetry, but damn good fiction. 7.9/10
>>16495220
I couldn't see anything that's familiar minus the King, Calvin and Hobbes, and Bachman books. Looks like mostly comfy comics and graphic novels. Once again, lack of poetry makes me said, but Calvin Hobbes boosts that shit. 7/10
>>16496308
As another anon said, lack of poetry, but you seem to be cool. 8/10
>>16497794
Decent. Happy to see Knausgaard. Once again, lacking poetry. 7/10
>>16498175
This is to reference all your shelves. 8.5/10. I mostly read English literature, so a lot of these I've never heard of. Your Russian section is pretty good.
>>16498822
Meh. 4/10.
>>16498866
>Kindle
Lol. 0/10
>>16499303
Everyman's Library is pretty good. 9/10.
>>16500481
Short and simple. Get some poetry in your life though. 7.5/10
>>16500677
I am a sucker for hardcovers like that. You do need more poetry though. 7.5/10
>>16500806
Keep going anon. 4.5/10
>>16500915
Hey, it's comfy though, right? 6/10
>>16500976
Good collection, but there are better English writers than Jack London and JRR Tolkien. 6.5/10
>>16501348
Underrated stack. 7/10
>>16501682
Not bad. The Faulkner definitely helps. 6.5/10.
>>16501708
Fuckin' kek. Alright memetard. 1/10
>>16501890
Haven't read any of these (minus The Bible). 6/10
>>16502436
1/10
>>16502969
Comfy fantasy is what I see. 6.5/10
>>16503823
Keep going anon. You're on a good track. 6.5/10

>>16502436
What did you think about storm of steel?

>>16504061
I'm worrying about these, they are over my TV.

>>16504161
You don't need a TV with all those books anyway

>>16504161
sell your tv buy more books

>>16504222
More?

>>16504115
Great and not only my favourite account of war, but one of my favourite books. Nice to read something from a Germans perspective for once. Although I posted all those meme books for a laugh, the storm of steel is one I'll unironically recommend to anyone.

Current books I've been going through. Paradise lost, Cristo and Homer I only bought this week.

My pending-stack

1/3

>>16504603
2/3

>>16500677
tell me about that dune?

>>16504603
>>16504606
3/3

>>16495255
that whitman, does it contain 1855 edition of LOG?

>>16495199
Send a pic

>>16504603
What a strange collection

>>16504631
What's so strange, it's primairly non-fiction and japanese literature

>>16504809
>Primarily Catholic books and weeb books
>What's so strange

Read the top three rest is for the coming weeks.

>>16502355
I actually got it on sale on Amazon for almost 50% off. I think I paid less than $40 for it

>>16502477
Not the poster, but I'm Brazilian too. Books here can be really expensive, specially in the original language.

>>16505237
Your lucky it’s selling used on amazon for $150 I think and I don’t buy used books.i finally caved and got the modern library set when I saw the price dip

1/3 my bookshelves have been pared down a little since we're preparing to move soon. I've packed away dozens that were elsewhere in my room. I'm keeping the books I had as a kid as well so that my future child will have access to information that isn't propaganda and stories that aren't politically correct idiocy.

2/3 the other side of the shelves.

3/3 these are the 'family bookshelves' where its a mix of everyone's stuff all together. Again the mess is cause we're moving soon. The two boxes are more of my books lmao. Dad also has at least 150 books in his room relating to history, war, the occult, magick, mythology from different cultures, and classical literature. He's divorcing my mum and all her books are trash horror or chick lit so we either boxed them up or threw them out secretly cause she never reads them anyway.

>>16505385
>1000 nudes
>Samurai sword
>Little head sculpture of Lenin

Unfathomably based

>>16505385
>Twilight
>including the one that was released this year
Are you a girl from the mid-00s?

>>16502477
not all
books are kind expansive here desu
i bought most of em second-handed lol

>>16505257
definitely
english books are fucking expansive

>>16495154
>Nabokov
Ah, the name of my favorite pornstar.
>>16495255
Organize your shelf, chinlet.
>>16496308
Very based bookshelf

>>16504573
>star wars
>>16505379
>gay-me of thrones
You're both autistic.

>>16505573
Lol, 1996

Stack of fun light reads I brought to uni

i hate dorm room pictures, they remind me of sex

>>16505772
I bet you're a limpwristed latte drinker.

>>16505810
>tripfag daring to have an opinion

new reader

>>16505853
Check the faces of /lit/ thread, I MOG you scumbag.

>>16501890
Arab Politics looks interesting, gonna get it.

>>16502436
Fucking cringe, read Wages of Destruction & Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in the 30s

>>16504573
>Evola
>Star Wars
>Jordan Peterson
>Muh Death of Evropa
Checks out, confirmed midwit.

>>16498144
Én személy szerint jobban szerettem az Á rebours Kosztolányi-féle fordítását ('A különc"), mint az angol változatokat, sokkal ízesebb és viccesebb volt magyarul valamiért. Gondolom Kosztolányi miatt.

>>16505990
Star wars books are from when i was 15, 12 rules for life is dogshit

Do you guys have degrees in literature? Can you enjoy literature if you don’t have a background in it?

>>16505980
I actually use it to fall asleep sometimes. It's pretty dry, but I enjoy this sort of stuff. It's a survey of the problem of legitimacy in Arab governments of the mid 1970's. Basically how Arab governments command the loyalty of their subjects. It examines the divide between the traditional monarchies (Jordan, Saudi, Morocco) and the Arab Nationalist governments of the period (Syria, Egypt).

>>16506181
Yes, plenty of great writers read voraciously and never went to college. Plus the students you meet in a university English program are beyond insufferable.

>>16504608
look up "Dune Special Edition Hardcover" on amazon and you'll find it.

>>16505982
It was a meme post, chill out. I actually have normal books as well and I'm not a nazi.

>>16506181
sure you can, mate
just find what you like and enjoy ;)

Here's a different sort of book stack.
These are books I didn't ask for which were gifted to me over the last 2 or 3 years, and which I haven't even attempted to start reading.
I appreciate the sentiment, and it's the thought that counts or whatever, but sometimes I wonder if people think that just because I'm a keen reader, I'll read whatever they throw at me.
I have dozens of books I actually want to read first, I also have a list of books to buy myself and if anyone wants to gift me a book, I can practically always name one.

>>16506851
Updated photo to include another book I forgot about, and reduce the image size cause the last was unnecessarily large.

recent acquisitions. The Guns of August is the one I see myself reading in the nearest future, but I'm especially curious to read Melville beyond Moby Dick and the famous short stories.

>>16506919
>Bregman
why would you do that yourself

>>16507132
why would I do what? did you not read my post?

>>16507148
Nope I'm blind apparently

>>16506942
lmao @ alternative classics

one fifth of my collection

>>16507223
What's Lucretius on the nature of things like?

>>16507223
>Ayn Rand
>Fash shit
Cringe

>>16507223
Asbolutely based collection

>>16507223
Absolutely based collection, is the Germar Rudolf book worth getting?

>>16498144
french is for faggot frog eaters please delete yourself and surrender to aryan might

>>16507433
kvetch harder

>>16507185
what?

>>16507235
I wasn't impressed. Lucretius essentially argues for atomistic materialism. i bought the book for a course I was taking

>>16507569
Yes. Dissecting the Holocaust is a tour de force.

>>16507617
Ayn Rand was a Jew, retard.

These are about 1/3 of my books

Please no bully

>>16507908
How is Growth of the Soil?
Thinking of reading it once I finish Les Miserables

>>16507908
>liveswithhisgf.jpg
Normie scum

>>16498170
Amúgy
>Kappa=Víz alatti emberek
Top kek! Ezért szeretem a magyar fordításokat.

>>16504269
Nice cat anon

>>16506181
Most of us here don't have degrees on literature friend

>>16500481
Holy based anon

>>16506181
i'm doing a degree in english lit and it's good fun, but you can seriously go do a proper degree and just sit in on english lectures, unless you wanna be an academic or a publisher or smt

>>16507787
based, but those shelves are cancerous

>>16507908
>Dungeons master guide
>Bottle of wine

Based

>>16495154
Just started reading again, haven't finished all of these but most of them I finished at one point in my life. Calvin and Hobbes is what got me started reading in my youth, Plato and Aristotle stopped me from reading in my young adulthood, and Dostoyevsky started my reading again in adulthood.

>>16501708
how the fuck do you read milo yiannopoulos with out throwing up

>>16507908
>Berserk
>based

>>16500889
>>16500915
I remember you from 55chan/lit/.

>>16508867
weeb here
i think you are wrong, anon
i only use 4Chan :v

>>16508800
By not being an unabashed tourist/newfag

I only recently came into a enough money to maintain a physical shelf rather than pirate everything off libgen. Please be nice, /lit/.

>>16508976
keep going, you have future
i believe in you, anon

>>16508885
if anything reading milo indicates that you are a newfag lmao

>>16508976
Based, me too. Welcome to the patrician's club, anon

>>16507908
>Berserk 15
Lost Children is best 'serk

Be gentle.

I just got my shelf set up after having my entire library in boxes for... 2 years? More? I'm reading a lot more now that I have a dedicated space to do it, reading in front of a computer or in the living room where there's a TV is suffering. I wish I had a small end table though.

>>16501708
> The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
>Milo Yiannopoulos
>The Bell Curve

What the hell happened to this board. This is the most pathetic, pseud tier stack I've seen in a long time, Dear God. Anon would be better off throwing out the entire stack and reading a pdf of Kant's works instead.

>>16509436
How have you not seen this common bait image before? It Is posted in every single fucking stack/shelf thread. Kys newfaggot

>>16509554
based
>>16509436
newfag

>>16509436
this troll image is years old at this point

>>16507971
A fura címet leszámítva amúgy egy egészen igényes kiadás, jó papíron jó kötéssel.
Lomb Kató fordította.
Én is meglepődtem amikor felfedeztem.

>>16509436
Good reverse bait.

>>16509424
>Everymans library editions of the decline and fall

unfathomably based

>>16504603
>>16504606
>>16504610
Brainlet cath larper

>>16511037
Now all I need is the courage to read them

>>16511432
Me too anon, I've only read part one of six. And while it was enjoyable, there's so many other books on my list it's hard to dedicate time to that when I could realistically finish 7 or 8 others. I've also got that collection, I'm a simp for EL editions

>>16505385
Digimon is extraordinarily based. I have a vibe that you're a girl. If so, where are you from and do you have a bf?

>>16511544
Kek

bump

>>16505859
>Harari

Cringe coma: I am in a cringe coma

>>16507787

Nice Footes. I wanted to get that set.

bump

>>16511544
Stop simpin with girls on the other side of the planet and get on tinder you horny little bastard

I just got Swann's Way today. I haven't read these except for the first third of GR but Storm of Steel is next after I finish Tai Pei by Lin. I pick up these deluxe editions whenever I find them at the thrift store.