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1748526 No.1748526 [Reply] [Original]

Although humble, the fiction section of my bookshelf impresses you, admit it.

>> No.1748533

you have terrible taste in dental floss

>> No.1748535

>>1748533
Johnson and Johnson is a fine company. I think it was one of the mos expensive brands they had selling in the story.

>> No.1748542

>>1748535
(note to self, even if it is an image board website, proof read)

>> No.1748540

If you're gonna get Stephen King, Everything's Eventual is great, but you need moar and better books by him. That's my only comment. Advice to you.

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1748544

>posts pics of books that are discussed here all the itme
>thinks reading what everyone else reads is impressive
>thinks having the holy bible in the fiction section is going to make anyone mad or laugh
>doesn't arrange alphabetically.

not even slightly impressed

>> No.1748546

>>1748544
>doesn't arrange alphabetically

That one got me, too.

>> No.1748547

>>1748544
Mythology section is alphabetized.
Fiction section is alphabetized by authors you dimwit.
All books are leveled flat with the longest protruding book.

>> No.1748548

LOL. Holy Bible in there for the lulz.

OP is /lit/git

>> No.1748550

>>1748544
Arrange alphabetically by author bro here. It's like I really am a delusional librarian!

>> No.1748552

These are not your favourite books. These are the favourite books of a literary wanker.

>> No.1748556

>>1748540
The four seasons includes a collection of 4 novellas by Stephen King. 3 of which were made into movies.

The Apt Pupil
Shawshank
The Body
The Breathing Method

>> No.1748562

>words of christ in red

>> No.1748565
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>>1748547
>>1748547
>doesn't order alphabetically by protaganist first name

>> No.1748566

>>1748552
Glad you are telling me what I like and what I don't like. I certainly can't think for myself, hence my sheep like taste in books.

(I believe you should read a great deal of classics before laying your eyes on contemporary works, my personal perspective)

>> No.1748567

Where the fuck is the Melville or Orwell? Dear lawd!

>> No.1748571

OP, this is really obviously the stuff you've accumulated in four years of high school assigned reading and one year of picking a couple of endlessly talked-up /lit/ faves to read during your first year of civil engineering classes at Iowa State, plus a couple of fantasy/pop fiction books you actually enjoy

>> No.1748573

>>1748567
1984 is what I'm reading right now (yea a little late I know), it is resting on top of everything on the first row. Look again.

>> No.1748577

OP is scum

>> No.1748578
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>>1748556
>The four seasons
>mfw you got the title wrong

>> No.1748580

>>1748571
Actually......

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5883-the-100-greatest-books-ever-written

>> No.1748582

>King Lear
NO FAKE KINGS

>> No.1748585

>>1748580
oy

>> No.1748591

>>1748578
yikes...Oh well, human memory isn't 100% infallible.

>> No.1748596

>Atlas Shrugged and The fountainhead

>> No.1748599

I don't know if I'm being trolled or something, but it appears some of you have a bad habit of trying to tell people who they are.

You are Hannibal Lecter wannabe's by trying to do that.

>> No.1748601

>>1748573
Hot damn, I missed it up top. But still, you don't have what can be argued as the greatest novel ever created by an American; Moby Dick.

>> No.1748603

Wow. This is the most generic /lit/ bookshelf I have ever seen.

>> No.1748606

>>1748526
utterly devoit of any fiction that could define you.

>> No.1748609

I love how you managed to slip A Series of Unfortunate Events into there, the second book, no less.

>> No.1748615

A fine troll OP, your subtle mixture of smugness combined with a bookshelf full of AP reading list makes you a true master. Some of the lower tripfags on this board should really be taking notes right now.

>> No.1748617

>>1748571
>>1748577
>>1748585
>>1748596
>>1748603
>>1748606
All jelly because of crap taste in literature

>> No.1748619
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1748619

>No literature
>Books I enjoy
>Comics
>What am I doing on /lit/

>> No.1748622

>>1748617
No, I just actually have taste. I read more than what I see on "top 100" lists.

>> No.1748624

>>1748609
At least that's when the writing was decent.

It's started getting really weird around the 10th or 11th, i can't remember

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>>1748609
It's the first book I ever demanded that my mother buy me.

I read most of it aloud when everyone was out of the house.

I was in grade.......5

>> No.1748642

>>1748622
As you can plainly see, a lot of the books on my shelf are not included on the "top 100 list".

My balls, suck em.

>> No.1748681

>Lots of great books
>Only one by each author, except a handful of Shakespeare, two by H.G. Wells, and
>Two Ayn Rand

I have no face

>> No.1748686

>>1748681
I said the book case was humble for a reason, it is just beginning to take shape. I'm off to a running start.

>> No.1748698

>>1748681
You seem two have missed the two Stephen King books beside each other.

>> No.1748710

>>1748686
But... two Ayn Rand? I don't know whether to salute your powers of endurance or recommend a responsible domme so you can get your masochist kicks more ethically...

>> No.1748729

>>1748710
I hate Atlas Shrugged, I have yet to read Fountainhead (I heard good things about the latter).

I have a varied range of taste in literature, as I do with music. My taste in music excellent too.

>> No.1748743

>>1748729
varied doesn't equate to excellent

>> No.1748750

coke under fiction? i knew it! the coke is a lie!!

>> No.1748756

>>1748743
But it does represent an open mind, which is the primary reason why Rand is there.

>> No.1748758

>Fiction section
>The Holy Bible

Heh.

>> No.1748779

>>1748758
lol

>> No.1748796

>mfw people brag about their collection of books that could fit in a single box
what the fuck? this is like the porn equivilent of bragging about your 3 inch penis

>> No.1748798

>>1748756

An open mind is fine, but pandering to Randians is just pathetic. Ignore the damn book, stop giving it literary significance.

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1748914

the King James version? ... you're obviously an idealist

>> No.1748938

Ayn Rand can eat a dick

>> No.1748951
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1748951

The collection I share with my dad.

U jelly?

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Excuse the terrible quality.

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>>1748951
>>1748951
>my dad's collection
fixed that for you.

>> No.1748976

>>1748960

Pretty sure at least 10% of the books are mine but yeah, it's mostly my dad's. He's been building up his library for decades.

As if I needed to buy more books

>> No.1748988

>>1748953

hahahaha your fucking grandmothers cabinet, you are king of faggots

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>>1748988
>>1748988
why? it's a pretty nice cabinet

>> No.1749001

>>1748988

>hahahaha your fucking grandmothers cabinet

What?

>> No.1749420

>>1748619
>>1748619

I. Want. Your. Copies.Of. Sandman.

>> No.1749423

So you kept all the books they assigned to you in High School World Lit and High School American Lit.

Whoopde-fucking-do

>> No.1749469

>>1748951

Esta coleccion esta indudablemente en español. ¿Me equivoco?

>> No.1749598

bump

>> No.1749604

>Little Women
Fuck yea

>> No.1749620

My classics section alone is 4 shelves, you are not impressive in the slightest. You have perhaps 2-4 months worth of book purchases, I got 25 years of shelf shape filled.

>> No.1749621

>>1749620

space not shape, duh.

>> No.1749637

>>1749620
take pictures, ho