/lit/ - Literature

>>16826143
In terms of the actual books it looks pretty standard. The shelves are functional. The table looks nice.

>>16826143
Is that Buddha in his own words book good? I flipped through it at the bookstore and it seemed to be more of the author's commentary than the buddhas own words.

>>16826173
Only just got my copy, haven't read it yet but I've heard good things.

>>16826507
This image is made a lot funnier by the hockey stick. Can't imagine any of the hockey players I've known consooming all the Barnes & Noble collectible editions.

What is that penguin next to Joyce on the top of the shelf?

>>16826143
Some of the books I like. Some I do not like. This is your own bookshelf, not mine.

>>16826143
>>16826507

Your shelves all look pretty expensive.

>>16826143
War and Peace The Original Version... what does that mean? Is it in Russian?

>>16826507
I bet you haven't read one of them, consoomer.

These two shelves are connected to my desk. The top shelf is mostly for references (hence why a lot of them are anthologies) and introductory essays and the bottom shelf is what I am currently reading/want to read.

>>16826571
Infinite Jest looks so out of place amongst that poetry collection.

>>16826571
You're an art student, aren't you?

>>16826583
It is! I don't read a ton of fiction, my area of focus is poetry. And I must confess that I haven't finished the big IJ. I thumb through it every now and then, reading twenty to thirty pages here and there. I keep a journal so I don't forget what I've read. I love Wallace's short story collection "Oblivion" and his essay collection "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again."
>>16826587
English lit grad student doing a half thesis and half manuscript.

>>16826583
Noticed he placed it on top of the poetry collection with the Harold Bloom commentary. What exactly is he trying to signify?

>>16826507
My eyes...
Why are these special edition bindings so cringe to me?

I need a new bookshelf.

>>16826632
You need new books, /pol/fag.

im sick of rummaging through card board boxes. anyone use stacked milk crates for book selves?
how do those work?

>>16826644
You just stack them on their side and place the books in them as if they were shelves.

>>16826143
>two copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
BASED BEYOND COMPREHENTION

>>16826507
Looks like old chocolate wrappers

>>16826638
I don’t like buying new books, used books are much cheaper.

>>16826632
You need a new camera

>>16826632
Some of that is pretty based and some is pretty cringe. Also anyone claiming he's /pol/ is delusional.
>Wages of Destruction
>Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich
>Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

>>16826606
You writing on AS Byatt?

>>16826143
This is my primary bookshelf. I have another one that has more fiction and the books I don't access as much. Let me know if y'all want to see that one too.

>>16826785
I don't know know why the image is flipped?

>>16826785
What's the Latin textbook you found most useful?

>>16826768
Not yet! When I finish my Masters I hope to write my PhD thesis on Swift and Byatt. Both are probably my favourite post-1950's fiction writers (alongside DeLillo, Roth, and Kerouac). Currently I am writing my half thesis on mythopoeias and Ted Hughes' "Crow". The other half, my manuscript, is a collection of poems.

>>16826745
by now this is a bit, right?

>>16826817
Cool. Are you American? Also what's a manuscript in this context?

What do your parents think of your book hobby, anons?

>>16826839
No! I am actually Canadian. The manuscript is my creative work. This Masters program (and actually quite a few Canadian universities are starting to implement this) is kind of this hybrid MA in English Literature and MFA in Creative Writing, hence why I am only writing 50-75 pages of a thesis on Ted Hughes' "Crow" and the other 50-75 pages is my poetry collection.

>>16826745
Is this the IQ/Civic Nationalism starter pack?

>>16826799
Honestly, I learned most of my Latin through studying outside of class for JCL competitions (which consisted of taking old grammar and reading comprehension test from previous competitions and working with an older student or a teacher to see what I did wrong and learn from it) and bought these textbooks for easy reading to practice comprehension. If I had to recommend a book though, it would definitely be the Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata series, which I used in my fourth year of studying to improve my reading speed and transition from translating into English to understanding the Latin itself. It's a graduated reader that teaches the Latin through Latin itself. If you speak English, you'll understand the first chapter. By the end of the first book, you'll be reading selected poems written by actual Romans and the second book gives a history of Rome up to Augustus through selected Roman texts. It was a pleasure to read. Wheelock is good for it's in depth explanations of the grammar, but it lacks enough reading and practice to be effective on its own. The Ecce Romani series is a middle of the road between the two. My high school used Cambridge, and like Ecce Romani, it seems pretty middle of the road, though my Latin teach sometimes complained about the order that the Cambridge textbooks introduced grammar. All this in mind, I still recommend the Lingua Latin series. It also has additional books that go along with the main two if you're willing to spend more money, but they aren't required at all.

>>16826143
very generic taste. it looks like you only read books meme'd by /lit/ which is the sign of an indisputable pseud. also i hate seeing books angled like that. it seems disrespectful to the books to just shove them in at odd angles.

>>16826785
autistic classicist. i'm sure you're intelligent, but this is a rather dull selection, and seems to be mostly pulled from university bookshop curb sales.

>>16826799
>>16826873
Also, Allen and Greenough is a reference grammar book, not a textbook, but it is invaluable to have if you want in depth explanation of the grammar, though you'll need a good intuition on what facts to focus on when reading it (which you will gain as you study Latin).

>>16826606
>English lit grad student
>I hope to write my PhD thesis on

>>16826856
That's actually pretty cool. I'd do that if I could. That's pretty hefty for an MA though. Is it a two year thing?

>>16826852
My mother thinks I spend too much time and money on an asocial hobby. My father could not care less, he's dead.

>>16826877
I don't have a desire to own every single classics book. I have a subsription to the online loeb and there is always http://thelatinlibrary.com/.. I only really buy Latin books for when I want to study a particular section in depth. I do want to add more mediaeval texts though which has been a bit of a struggle to find quality texts of.

>>16826143
Cringe pseud

>>16826610
They are objectively cringe, they look like cheap children's toys.

>>16826894
Yeah, I am a Masters student right now. PhD is not in my future for quite some time.
>>16826895
Yep, two years. First year is a bunch of intense literary theory and workshop classes, and second year is thesis/editing and more workshops.

>>16826960
I'm glad I'm skipping theory for the most part.

>>16826877
> university bookshop curb sales.
I will admit, the physics books absolutely are though.

>>16826960
so you went through your whole bachelors and still haven't realised how pointless and shit it all is
you have to be some 110 IQ shitlib or a woman there is no way

>>16826507
i see 5 good books, maybe 6
>>16826571
>no philosophy
we're not all gonna make it bros :(
>>16826632
>I need a new bookshelf.
and new books. I see one good one (Hegel)
>>16826745
Read il principe and bin the rest
>>16826785
12+ good books

>>16827030
Not only do I enjoy studying it, but I make a decent amount of money as a TA right now, so it is not pointless.
>>16827041
Yeah, I don't really enjoy reading philosophy. Besides some literary theory, I'll leave philosophy to you guys.

>>16826877
The angled books are temporary. Usually I would never. I made sure they aren't being damaged how they are sitting.

I should also note please ignore Atlas Shrugged, I got it for free from the Objectivist Society for a meme.

>>16827062
it is always pointless
university is just like masturbation
it is masturbation
except retards and women are proud of it
"look at my certificate to show what a good masturbator and follower of low IQ church dogma i am!"
for me it is a mark of shame and I even did a """"useful"""" degree
how you are not having an existential crisis once per hour is a medical miracle

>>16826507
I too, shop at costco.

>>16827106
Kek. Cool story, bro.

>>16827106
t.Helicopter.

>>16826173
It's a good intro. You can skip the first 50 pages or so, which is just the author. Before each sutta, he gives some context etc, and he has shortened the most repetitious parts of the suttas themselves (thank God).

>>16827106
Dangerously based

>>16826143

>>16826143
>Coronameron
Stop posting here, and immediately put a bullet in your pate.

>>16828024
I figured I contributed enough that it would be worth picking up a copy for posterity.
And if I ever finally quit the internet, it will be a decent example of what it was if I ever feel the need to return or remember what it was like.

>>16827403
>he has shortened the most repetitious parts of the suttas themselves (thank God).
Non-repetition is the bane of scriptures.
-DHAMMAPADA, verse 241

>>16826143
Fuck these threads.
Fuck your shelfs.

>>16826745
I have the same atlas shrugged and I have to say I will never buy penguin classics again. The quality of the book is absolutely terrible: some pages are too skewed and after reading it once it looks like the worst book in my shelf. Disgusting.

>>16828101
>I figured I contributed enough
See the part about putting a bullet in your brain

>>16830229
Do not have fun. Do not engage with others. Everything is serious. Do not be creative. Do not shitpost. 4chan is a serious place for serious things and you have to be serious.

>>16829973
>buying thick paperbacks and expecting them to last more than one read

>>16826632

This is everything I've read since I started taking reading more seriously in June, go easy on me :3

>>16827106
>for me it is a mark of shame and I even did a """"useful"""" degree
yes because you did terribly.

>>16826571
favourite hughes collection?

>>16826173
It's the best comprehensive introduction to Buddhism imo

>>16830865
If you like Dostoevsky you should try Albert Camus or Nietzsche's fictions. If you like Irvine Welsh you might like Bret Easton Allen. If you like Orwell you may like Vonnegut. If you like Moby-Dick you should try the King James Bible.

>>16832060
I've read american psycho on audiobook. Dostoevsky was fine but not really my thing I guess, I want to read more classics for now. along with some French novels as I'm trying to learn it

>>16826632
why is that shirer book so popular.

>>16832060
>Bret Easton Allen
Dumbass, It's Bret Easton Ellis
>>16832368
>I've read american psycho on audiobook
You read nothing, bitch

>>16831669
Crow, easily, but Hawk in the Rain Birthday Letters, Wodwo, and Cave Birds are all definitely worth checking out.

>>16826632
>Stan Rogers
>Culture of Critique
>Blacklisted by History
>Stackpole Military History

Highly Based and Highly redpilled

>>16834214
cringe alert

>Highly Based and Highly redpilled
more like higly cringe and higly cringepilled

>>16834286
dilate, rabbi

>>16834301
Nah, homie you should dilate

>>16826644
honestly build a shelf yourself its not that hard

>>16826571
I have the same literary theory anthology! Your Riverside Shakespeare is beautiful

>>16826852
My parents and I share the hobby and often talk about what we are reading with each other. We all add to a big collection.

>>16834214
Once again amazingly based shelf anon

>>16834325
if olaf gets a warm hug he will melt he is made of snow

>>16826632
Based David McCullough vs. Cringe Ron Chernow. Chernow's Hamilton biography literally reads like a schoolgirl writing in her diary about her new crush.

>>16834550
Thanks. Here's another one.

>>16826785
I wish I had enough time to dedicate to all of this.

>>16826632

Baste.

>>16826632
Hello, my friend.

>>16834351
Dude, I have a few other literary theory books, and this one I would consider to be the best. And thanks! I also have an Oxford Shakespeare, which I like and is pretty decent, but I love Riverside's too much haha!

>>16834655

>>16826792
this happens whenever you submit an image from mobile

>>16834655
No poetry?

>>16826143
What is that Ulysses

>>16830865
what edition of BM is that?

>>16834710
Not OP. It's the third edition of ALMA Classics publication. The annotations are done by Sam Slote, Marc A Mamigonian, and John Turner. Has a good introductory essay, annotations are nice, but the text is pretty tiny and the book's spine is stiff. It's not a terrible edition, and the new annotations/essay is good enough for purchase, but it's not my first pick. If you find it on sale, I'd recommend getting it.

>>16826785
Any Latin texts you are studying at the moment? I've been getting into Cicero's Speeches. I'm finding them harder than the dialogues but that's mostly because of the legalistic vocabulary that I haven't had the same exposure to.

Is it worth it studying latin late in life? I don't have much time for it now, and probably still won't have for at least another 5 years, seeing I already have a full shelf and a career to worry about, but getting into latin is one of those dilettante things I'd like to try at some point. I shouldn't find it as hard as many anons since I speak a latin language natively.

It does seem quite the investment for something I'll probably never use, though, so I'd approach it as more of a deep entertainment of sorts than serious studying. I know there are many books in Latin I could read, but time is limited and I already have plenty to keep me occupied for the next few years, professional books included.

>>16834869
I'm a NEET and I study it to keep my brain from turning into sludge, personally. It's a great feeling to read the classical writers in the original languages, and it keeps your reasoning faculties sharp too. I'd recommend it if you have the time. I should probably study something more practical but Latin after a certain point is so much fun to study and build on.

Finally got a proper bookcase. r8 my tastes

Funnily enough I'm fairly sure the same as >>16834214. Do the shelves end up sagging bad anon?

>>16826143
i love viking portable libraries. In general, I skim through and only read parts I like. These books were made for me

>>16826143
>Coronaremon
>tfw shitposts online with random anon and writes Das Rite, Das Kapital
>some one buys it and places on his bookshelf next to the greatest works of western literature

>>16834988
Well, I'm not a NEET, far from it, so it certainly wouldn't be as simple. I've wanted to try this out for a while now, but the only ones I see actually going through with it are neets and those within the humanities, who'll find at least some sort of professional utility in it. And those who learned it growing up, of course.

>>16835028
How can you stand looking at those disgusting, normie tier colourful covers? I'd be gentle if I said it looked like a bunch of tea boxes.

>>16834767
Pretty much sums it up. I got it secondhand for cheap so it was worth the purchase.

>>16835056
That's the joke

>>16835028
Is Why Nations Fail any good? I'm seeing mixed response on here. Weird thing is, some days everyone says it's good and other days everyone says it's bad.--How does that even happen?

I've spend irresponsible amounts of money on books

>>16835140
To be fair they are fairy tale books. Looking like to boxes makes sense for them. Lol But really I'm just a sucker for Folio Society. Books used to be so rare the they were elaborately decorated to show what treasure was hiding inside and I feel like in the era of mass market paperbacks that's been left behind.

>>16835214
I wish I could let you know. I just picked it up last week. I was going to get to it as soon as I'm done the Five Families. But I hear it's fantastic.

>>16835311
I get having a couple books with a more ornate look, but when it's a bunch of them all at once like that it looks very exaggerated.

>>16835357
I get that. The really loud spines are a set in the series which is why there is so many of them. I'll be honest I mostly got them to read to my kid.

>>16834655
>not even a real caplock

>>16834214
>ayn rand
Didn't even bother to check the rest.

>>16835028
I like the copy of New England Folklore dude, nice.

>>16835294
This is worth a grand total of $22. And we can't see a single title.

>>16834869
>Is it worth it studying latin late in life?
Yep.
>It does seem quite the investment for something I'll probably never use, though, so I'd approach it as more of a deep entertainment of sorts than serious studying.
You get out what you put in.
If you are looking for entertainment I would go with French or German.

1/3

>>16836038
2/3

>>16836046
3/3

>>16836053
This stack is the winner. Check out Evola if you're into morality.

Here's mine with my bunny chilling out. I haven't read many of these yet, I recently gave away most of the books I'd read apart from the really special ones

>>16834730
2010 hardcover repress by modern library. I removed the sleeve because I think it's ugly

>>16832882
Book is a much better experience on audiobook imo. Comfy af to have on in the background while you're doing work, the audible narraiton is great also. If I'd have to read every costume, brand location on a physical book I think I'd just end up skimming over all that stuff.

>>16836180
Lemme see more bun

r8, h8, etc.

>>16837030
looks fairly standard to me, spice it up friend

>>16826632
>komi can't communicate
based

>>16837112
How?

>>16834325
>No u.
How will the 'rightoids' ever recover.

>>16826852
They both have way more books than me.

>>16826785
latin/greek + physics + math/statistics = absolutely based shelf of the modern renaissance man

>>16834655
ugly, but based

>>16834662
how is that foucault so small? is it an abridged version? good bookshelves otherwise

>>16826143

>>16826143
Stopped reading What if? after 50 or so pages, it's one of the few books I rated 1 start on goodreads. It wasn't interesting or funny to me, the answer to every question basically boiled down to:
>what if x?
- if x, then ... y. But, if aside from x also z would happen and q would be the case and r would occur, then completely irrelevant answer w would be the case

What an annoying read that was, his own additions to questions weren't in any way though provoking, insightful or entertaining, they were just his own autistic nerd brain having a spasm - that in itself isn't really an issue if it happens once, but it happens in every. single. fucking. answer.

>>16826852
They both like it. Even if they are not well educated they are smart people, they think that books are never a waste of money. Also they always ask me suggestion about what to read, and my dad started getting interested in philosophy in his 60s.

>>16827106
sounds like coping to me. Hope your life get better champ.

>>16837135
Pepper and salt.

>>16838689
There's actually a good book on the history of salt
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Highly recommend!

as for pepper... meh

>>16838689
Calm down, this is a white board.

>>16837172
They won't

>>16837722
History of Sexuality is three volumes, that's one of them

>>16826852
They don't give a shit. I published my first collection of short stories and when I told them, they just kinda shrugged and said 'cool.' They didn't even want to read any of them.

>>16837030
lots of interesting books, pretty good overall. too much murakami imo but not bad.

>>16836053
solid stack and shelf, i fuck with you

>>16834214
based and redpilled, i assume you lift and perform cardiovascular exercise to keep your mind in tip top shape as well anon?

>>16826632
basado

>>16836180
omg a cute bunny

>>16826507
>hockey stick
>the expensive and aesthetically pleasing edition of many classics and popular contemporary literature
>constitution
im thinking based and upper middle class whitepilled, love what you're doing anon

ive read at least 75% of my shelf, what about you anon? excluding the reference books of course.

>>16840186
So are you studying to be a self-taught pharmacist, MBA, lawyer, investor, etc.? What's your deal, renaissance man?

>>16835294
can you get a closer photo please? I want to see all of these books

>>16826143
>Michael King Penguin History of New Zealand
Try A History of New Zealand by Keith Sinclair

>>16840315
just different tangents i've gone off on before mostly lol. i was big into drugs for a while in my younger years and had aspirations to be a pharmacist. then i got to college and wanted more money than pharmacy so i went accounting, then realized too many numbers make me sick so i decided tax attorney would be a good middleground. which is the path im currently on, finishing my bachelors while working as an electrician. if law school doesn't work out i'll just continue with electric and start my own business.

>>16836180
bnuuy

>>16826898
I was all set to correct you when I reread your post. I thought you wrote “could care less”, a most irritating Americanism, which is now, no doubt, so ingrained in my psyche that it pollutes my senses.

>>16826931
Is there even text inside? They look like props. A similar quality to imitation fruit. Sorry for my harsh words, this anonymity provokes a certain degree of inhumanity.

>>16834662
Piles of degenerate commie trash

>>16826143

>>16836069
Adam Smith

>unironically owning physical books
ngmi
I got all I need in this little folder

>>16826852
My mom likes depending on me to know shit about science/philosophy/nutrition etc, she thinks it's cool and still has the mindset of "if it's for education, spend as much as you need to". My dad is dead but he always thought it was great, he could barely read though he never needed to. I've definitely read more books this year than everyone in his entire lineage from the present day going back 300 years to England combined. He was from a pretty isolated original settlement in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia so they mainly read the Bible
>>16834214
>over 50 books on Jews
>$1000+ pictured
Really nigga? Still based though I wish I knew you so I could borrow some. How long you been collecting?
>>16834655
Please face your bookshelf good god

pic unrelated

Rate me boys

>>16841880
Based and sailing-pilled

>>16841880
Favourite?

>>16841782
I don't like culturalizing animals the way you just did. Also, I don't like using animals as political symbols.

>>16842093
It’s not on the shelf but my fav would be yonder on the train by lance Phillips

I didn't want to create a new thread for this, but can anyone reccomend me some non-meme tier books on supply and demand?

>>16841614
nobody is impressed by a poorfag thief. you will never be a woman

>>16841614
It's about the aesthetic, man.

>>16841154
Midge

>>16842135
Too bad, what are you going to do about it?

>>16842228
?

>>16842395
cry, piss and shid

>>16842395
Fantasize about torturing you.

>>16835294
>I've spend irresponsible amount of money on that tv
Fixed.
Also, is that a cross on the wall?

you guys need to step it up a bit really.

pardon the woeful lack of organisation and shitty kids books i've accumulated and kept over the years (this is my childhood bedroom as I've come home for my masters.) hell might be nice to pass them on to my kids one day

most of the books I've read in the last 4 years have been from university libraries too lads I tend not to have the disposable income for books these days.

>>16842832
a few of the compartments are double stacked I've run out of space with all the massive christmas books from childhood taking up fat amounts of space

>>16842901
This image makes my head roll off my shoulders.

>>16842901
not sure if I could care less if you shouldn't stack books lmao these weren't written by 14th century monks by hand

>>16842981
lads read books that are relevant not gay meme shit

>>16826143
Don't really own too many books desu, mostly just textbooks I stole from the junk shelf during finals.

>>16843014
i don't even study a literary degree i have better taste than u and i'm doing an msc filled with chinese autists.

>>16843050
friendly reminder that it's ok to read translations you incels

>>16843072
i particularly recommend these

>>16842973
this is you lol

>>16835214
Well, the book has a lot of political underpinnings, so people who agree with them will be predisposed in favor of the book. I thought the authors had some major flaws in their evidence and argumentation. I'm at MIT and haven't had the opportunity to talk to Daron (he's pretty inaccessible), but one of his colleagues acknowledged the flaws that I found and told me that Daron's papers are much more developed than the book. I've yet to read his papers.

>>16837030
All that Murakami/10. Do yourself a favor and get some better Soseki than I am a cat.
Also keep your brushes in a shoe box or inside a drawer so they're not covered in dust.

>>16843236
I wasn't speaking metaphorically. I was speaking literally because I had to reorient my head in a way that hurt my neck. I have kyphosis.

>>16841112
As a person who buys those editions regularly yes there is text inside and yes they look like props. The only reason I'll get them is due to the pricing, for hardcover books I'll usually find them to be cheaper than alternatives, and sense I don't care how my shelf looks it doesn't matter too much to me.

>>16841234
I'm digging the bottom shelf with Harvard Classics

>>16843050
Lol 90% of your shelves are meme books. Relax MSC it's kind of embarrassing that you act like this.

>>16843028
cute cats

>>16835028
Nice Tolkiens.

>>16826632
Based erudite.

>>16843718
I've actually read most of the Soseki works that have been translated to English and Spanish; I Am A Cat has simply been the only one I've managed to get my hands on, sadly. My intent is to collect most of Murakami, Soseki and Tanizaki's translated oeuvre once I build a new bookshelf.

>>16835028
Any woman would let you impregnate her at the sight of those folio fairy tale books.

Jealous/10

>>16841614
Dangerously based

>>16842832
Mmm the smelle

>>16846081
I don't really get BO so it just smells like musty books a little. not really noticeable.

probably not even gonna get a reply cause im more of a /sci/guy, but here goes nothing

>>16846356
oh and also i cant remember for the life of me who i lent my copy of east of eden to. that was one of my favorite books on y shelf

>>16846356
: )

>>16842832
this guy fucks

>>16847235
not since the uk govt made all single people incels but hoping to change that soon.

>>16835294
havent we all anon.

>>16841614
we dont actualy read the books on our shelves you silly newfag, they are to impress others only.

>>16846356
i like math and literature too, anon i love u

Don't have that much philosophy I just realised. And that's half an adderall pill on top of the green measure theory book. Also, have some based transcendentalist writings in the mail

>>16826632
kill yourself

>>16841782
Sorry, what does face mean in this context

>>16848637
Holy buttplug

>>16848637
which measure theory text is that?

>>16841234
based but they don't look very well read.

>>16849313
Cohn's Measure theory. Not a good book to first learn it from, but served primarily as a good intro to grad style math.

>>16838434
I got it as a gift many years ago when it came out. Not usually the sort of book I would enjoy but I did overall like it. It's a bit reddit but not that bad.

>>16826632
Is The Isles any good?

>>16830865
Did you like The Secret History? I read it, and I think I'm gonna read The Goldfinch soon

>>16834214
Where can you buy a physical of Siege?

>>16848813
It's a grocery store term it means to pull all the objects on a shelf to the front so they appear uniform and full

>>16850602
How readable is the Bataille? I've been considering pulling the trigger on Story of the Eye but I don't really know what I'm in for other than perversion of the highest order.

>>16848637
How is that edition of The Corrections that thick?

>>16826143
Nice collection OP

>>16834214
Are E. Jones books worth getting? Particularly Libido Dominandi. I feel like I'd agree with the premise but I've heard it's poorly argued.

admittedly, I've only read like 15% of these.

>>16849803
The light looks nice but it really doesn't help the readability of your spines

>>16826785
> Ph.D. math candidate at a low tier state school core

you're tactless but very smart and definitely of small stature.

>>16826507
I own the Sherlock Holmes one, 4 years on still can't decide whether I love it or hate it. Book itself is really well put together & was cheaper than any other options I had for having physical copies of all Sherlock novels. When I bought it the bookstore woman asked if it was a gift.
Thanks for reading my blog post.

>>16827106
>imagine not completing higher education so you can put it in your twitter bio and "Ph.D." in your display name

>>16851181
If you’re gonna fill a bookshelf with shit you’ll never read at least fill it with high brow pseud shit and fulfill the aesthetic

>>16851303
No. Even though I might never read them, at least I find them interesting

>>16842180
Any undergrad-level intro to microeconomics textbook

>>16850725
Story of the Eye is p comfy, especially with his post-script. Bite the bullet, it's only like 80 pages.

>>16843050
Are you doing a business degree? I see pop-econ and intro math/stats

>>16827106
No, it's "look at my certificate to show how employable I am" shit on university education all you want, but you have to acknowledge how instrumental a degree is in getting a good job

>>16834825
I'm currently reading the Aeneid cover to cover because I never actually have done it before. I've read parts, even entire books of it before, and read it fully in English, but never entirely in Latin, so that's what I'm doing now. The book I'm looking at reading next is Dante's De Monarchia, but I want to have a physical version with a commentary, so I am currently searching for a good edition.
Are you using a commentary or just reading the straight text? I usually opt for a commentary when getting into a new type of writing.

>>16834869
>>16835131
It depends on what you value more. If you prefer to accrue economic gain from learning, then no, Latin probably isn't for you, though you could start tutoring as a side gig if you had the time/will/patience to do so, which varies widely in terms of money to be made based on where you live. That being said, as I wrote in a comment above, I still recommend getting Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana. Reading it isn't a great time commitment either. Try it out. Even just casually using it will give you a great start in learning Latin, and probably at a quicker pace than more traditional textbooks.

>>16837434
That's something I've always strove for, but I'm entirely lacking in the arts. I can sketch ok but I have never drawn or painted. I also don't know anything about music, which is something I want to get into now. I'm between the violin and the piano. I'm also looking for good books on music theory because I want to be able to appreciate classical music more, since, although I enjoy it, I feel like I'm missing something having never at minimum played an instrument.

>>16834631
Speaking with no knowledge of your current situation, perhaps you can? You might have to focus on one subject at a time at first, but if you constantly try to synergize the things your studying with the things you already know, should manage to learn a lot. This is how Renaissance men learned so much. Although many were artists, they become extremely good at geometry at well, which helped their art, allowing them to add perspective. It's all about try to use your knowledge to build more knowledge. I, for example, mastered Latin before I really started learning math. This was important because after I started diving into math, I read some of the papers of Euler, Newton, Leibniz, and especially Gauss's Disquitiones Arithmeticae, in Latin, from which not only did I learn more math, but I also learned how to write math in Latin, so I eventually switched to writing my math notes in Latin, so my study of math was reinforcing my study of Latin.

>>16851242
Lol are you calling my autistic and short? I'm actually an undergraduate planning on going to law school, as evident by the LSAT Trainer and pretests on the bottom shelf.

>>16826143
what book is left of dune? Pretty good collection.

>>16826571
Fave Byatt book? I want to read Matisse Stories...

>>16830865
Good start, you seem to have a healthy read/own ratio.

>>16852007
It's the first 3 Narnia books in one volume

>>16850761
The fonts fucking huge.

>>16840186
Those shelves will give way in a not-so-distant future

Imagine owning paperbacks lol

>>16826507
I wish there was a company that would just rebind any book you send them into collectors editions.

>>16840186
>GED
what happened bro

>>16826143
Fuck of with your narcissistic s(h)elf threads, you're not reading, you're just curating your identity as a reader, you don't search for knowledge but for prestige.

>>16852892
yeah

>>16826143
Diary of a wimpy kid

Way to come out to your parents that your a huge faggot anon

>>16851460
nah economics

>>16846356
Loves maths, not a single book about Pythagoruns or Euclids entire series in original Greek.
Please give up your math card.

>>16851588
Hey fren, there’s a copy of De Monarchia with Latin and English side by side for 15 dollars on Amazon

>>16852892
you're not above that anon, everyone fake an identity everyone want good points for what they do everyone need love

>>16852892
wow, you sure showed him, you colossal dipshit.

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>>16846356
>topology
t. cant tell the difference between donut and coffee mug

>>16854596
Čudan miks interesa. Nema puno exyu tipova ovdje, ovo je prilično dobro.

>>16855205
^ovo sto je on rekao

Wow, this thread is still up.

>>16847438
There are worse vices.

>>16842666
I actually got it pretty cheap. I reason that watching good films and television is conducive to good storytelling (that's what I tell myself, at least).

>>16840516
Okay anon, bear with me...

>>16855694
1/3

>>16855733
2/3

>>16855748
3/3

Not all of the titles will be visible even in these closeups due to camera quality but you should get a better look by zooming

>>16855733
>>16855748
>>16855759
Not the anon who asked but I love your shelf and your sorting by alphabetization

>>16855791
Thanks anon. 1 and 2 are fiction, moving into poetry on the second and third shelves of 2, and philosophy/theology/misc in 3.

1/1

:)

>>16855845
based and comfypilled

>>16855946
Thanks anon, takbir!

>>16855733
How is kitchen confidential? My buddy told me I would love it despite never having watched bourdain or cared about food. But seeing it amongst all that literature intrigues me

>>16826852
my dad thinks its dead weight that'll suffocate me one day.

Slowly I realize he was right.

>>16856037
It's okay, I haven't finished it yet since I had to drop it for uni reading and never got back to it. I like Anthony Bourdain though, and it's a pretty interesting depiction of a fringe we don't really think about. From what I've read so far kitchens really are filled with oddballs, rejects and exiles with really interesting things to say.

>>16826852
They think it’s better than the drugs but I start to wonder

>>16855845
what's that Jünger collection?
>>16855997
bless you!

>>16856516
Just some of his work in German, filtered me hard though. Have no problems with Arabic, but German was proving harder than I expected.

>>16856516
>>16856549
Auswahl aus dem Werk on Amazon

>>16856549
>>16856559
Ah alright, my German is decent but probably not good enough to read Jünger in the original. Also in what world is German harder than Arabic?

>>16856868
I’m sure it’s probably not if you aren’t a brainlet. I was raised with Arabic and English but no real exposure to other languages outside of that.

>>16857035
>A language I wasn't raised with is harder than one I was raised with
Well that was a surprising turn of events.

>>16826571
>references Infinite Jest

>>16855733
lmao literally all oxford, penguin, vintage or maybe one or two picador.

>>16857657
What's wrong with that? I like Oxfords.

>>16857688
nothing really... me too

just a bit dull

>>16826753
>>Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
This sounds interesting. How's it?

I love you guys

>>16857956
Love you too

>>16855845
based
>>16857845
based and mom-pilled

>>16858833
based wtf

>>16827062
Yeah buddy I'm sure making $35k/yr after 12 years of schooling is totally great.

18 Year old high school drop out who really only got that interested in ideas and reading towards the end of last year. Yeah, it’s all pretty basic entry level stuff, but i’d love some recommendations from you guys
The first book I ever brought in the stack was 12 rules for life when I was 16

>>16860246
Picture of the small stack of books that are stored vertically in the middle

>>16856868
Jünger uses a very particular style, his choice of vocabulary is rather distinct and unusual. I think it'd be very hard to read Jünger as a non-native. Still, congrats on the attempt, stick to it, bro.

>>16860246
pseud

>>16855759
Good taste

>>16840007
Mind posting some? I'm interested

>>16826852
Mother likes it, dad doesnt

>>16860246
If you are just starting out and you are into philosophy I'd suggest Meditations, The Prince, and 48 Laws of Power. It will likely give you a leg up while finding your path.

>>16860246
This is OK, but 2 things.

1 -- get a job or relevant training immediately. You are a burden on your family, how dare you have the gall to have leisure time.

2 -- Move past the Greeks. Seems like you need discipline so check out the Stoics.

>>16862703
That's a more interesting collection than I expected from the thumbnail, nice.

>>16826507
wow you found the worst editions possible, this looks like a childrens room

>>16827106
t. Rousseau

>>16826745
your stack hasn't changed in the last 3 months pick up the fucking pace

>>16834662
sebastian?

>>16851588
absolute based

>>16858837
What do you mean?

>>16862941
I'm surprised you could read any of the titles desu. Fixed.

>>16863577
baste