/lit/ - Literature

>>18457306
you sure love James Phelps

>>18457306
Damn OP, that's a big bookshelf.
I've been thinking of upgrading, myself. I've got 2 of them that are about 1/4 that size, 2 taller ones that are maybe 1/3 that size, and a small corner shelf.
How much did that run you? Where'd you get it?

>>18457306
>multiple copies shelf
What. Why is an Australian so obsessed with Phelps.

needs a sorting

>>18457306
>>18457331
>figurines
Holy cringe!!!

>>18457574
chaotic but kinda sweet

>>18457348
Was about to say you seemed like a comfy person until I noticed those 3 books...

>>18457306
I've been unconsciously arranging some of my books by color.
>>18457331
Post Tolkien and read Clark Ashton Smith.

>>18457306
>Is that a heckin FUNKO POP?! OMG WHOLESOME CHUNGUS 100

>>18457622
hah! i wish i could claim them as my own, the wife was propagandised by those awful movies

>>18457671
I keep my wife's shit in the closet, but I let her have the cool books out.

>>18457306
this is where I keep Europeans, Anglos and Proust have their own shelves.

>>18457645
Based Dune reader. Have you seen the recent Dune editions? Their covers are very nice

>>18457652
>basedboi notices the funkopop and not the 14 copies of a shitty australian crime novel

>>18457330
Its him

>>18457306
>funkos
confirmed shit tier taste

I didn't want to make a new thread to ask this, especially considering I never use lit but I am out of ideas.
I am trying to remember the title of a specific book I heard about from a teacher once ages ago.

It was written by some English guy, and is very unorthodox and meta. The whole point is that it was a meandering book about some guys life that goes no where story wise.
I am fairly sure it was written some time in the 1700s but it could be the 1600s or 1800s.
I know this is a long shot but I need to get this out of my head.

>>18457725
To be honest, I hate them, I also hate the editions I own. I don't like those minimalist designs.

>>18457765
Tristram shandy?

>>18457772
Yeah but I've had trouble finding editions like you posted that aren't in terrible condition

>>18457773
holy shit thank you
I'm in no way a /lit/ kind of person so sorry if the answer was obvious.
I haven literally been thinking about this for a week

>>18457306
>those rugba leeg books
/nrl/ family member?!

>displaying the spine
ishygddt

>>18457645
Are you the jap anon?

>>18457909
>exposing more of the paper to light
Ok retard

>>18457909
This looks so fucking stupid

>>18457909
Spotted the psychopath

>>18457909
I saw this same shit irl only once, I didn't say anything because I knew I was going to end up sperging out.
>>18457931
Aye.

>>18457725
what are the recent dune editions?

>>18457306
Bookshelves are little shrines for whatever you read, as if this is any important. They're just vanity and exibitionism about whatever bullshit books you've been led to buy by market teams because you are not able of picking your own books yourself.

>>18458238

>>18457574
gibts das auch in nicht-verschwommen?

>>18457348
my man be traveling

>>18457372
based*

>>18457306
>>18457331
>>18457645
>>18457725
Reddit is that way, dune niggers.

>>18458346
I've never been on Reddit, to be honest I know jack shit about Reddit, and didn't know about its existence until 2011. Define "Reddit" and its correlation with Reddit.

>>18458364
Correlation with Dune.
Pardon me.

>>18458373
Think about the cringe stereotypical nerd that thinks that science could fix everything despite not knowing himself a lot of science and just having a deep trust in it, he is probably in something related to IT and acts like a retarded child bragging about playing with his Nintendo switch at work, and the only garbage he reads is dune and other low scifi shit yet he thinks that he is worldly and cultured.

That is reddit.

wtf you guys read pure shit

>>18458824
t. general secretary of the based department

>>18457348
i am absolutely certain this is the bookcase of someone's parents not someone that posts on /lit/

>>18458847
we're not all teenagers mate

>>18458238
>buying things because of a marketing team
>not buying things because they fit your interests
>not having a place to store your books
...Then again, I do not read fiction, perhaps this does not apply to me and tends to be the case with the popculture "look at me, imma nerd lol I can't wait to share this with my 300+ friends" nonsense.

>>18457752
Ah, I see you are a man of taste

>>18457348
>mandela
burn

>>18458338
Oh hey, Utena!
Recently watched the musicals of that show. I rather like them.

>>18459150
Oh, which musical? The new one or the first? I have only seen the first and... It was an experience.

>>18459185
The new ones, Utena Bud of the White Rose and Utena Blooming Rose of Deepest Black.

They were surprisingly good.

>>18459107
I confess I rambled about the marketing part, but bookshelves are shrines for a cult of how smart you are, as those shinto shrines are cults for their dead or your catholic grandma for her saints. The marketing part is crowning the fact you have a shrine about how smart you are while showing off stuff other people, corporation and academia manipulated you to have

>>18458824
Holy shit anon can I have your number?

>>18457331
>thigh guy
>Jack Vance reader
Dangerously based

>>18457909
You have issues anon.

>>18458824
>based upper shelf
>tranny lower shelf

>>18457331
>The Best of L. A. Lafferty
Based.

>>18459807
based struggler

>>18457752
KALLA KÅRAR!

>>18457790
glad you found it out, anon!

>>18459965
At some point you should be asking yourself "why have I bought all these expensive ass english translations when I could have just learned french?". All those thinkers are pretty based though.

>>18457909
Do americans really?

>>18457306
>this triggers the pseuds

For the most part I don’t keep a book once I’ve read it so there’s not much on there.

>>18460085
I took Latin years ago but I really only know English. How long would it take to be able to read French?

>>18460119
Reading on an e-reader isn't real reading because

>>18458824
You will never be a woman

>>18457707
I had the same copy of zola. Sold it to a bookstore in the hipster downtown

Got 4 more boxes which dont fit.

>>18460232
Nice setup, anon. I like those simple wood shelves

>>18457707
>Chéjov
kek

>>18460255
Thanks man! Tried to go for simple and basic.

>>18458824
read carl schmitt

>>18459560
>>18460187
Spend more time outside.

>>18460339
Nazi critics of liberal democracy are less appealing to me than socialists, but I’ll check it out.

>>18457306
test

>>18458824
How was 'Denial of Death' if you read it yet?

>>18460360
Add:

Hoppe: Democracy, the God that Failed
Brennan: Against Democracy

My only dedicated bookshelf, the rest of my stuff is in shelves on my desk or my bed frame

>>18457306
If its truly yours u are such chadinton

>>18457909
instagram normie

>>18458917
kek

>>18459388
I don't know about you but I'm okay with being influenced and manipulated by other people. To sound really stupid, it's how life works. Yes, academia has manipulated me into becoming a scholar, and the Church has manipulated me into becoming a Christian, and my parents manipulated me into becoming their son (with all the loyalty and commitment that entails), and my profession has manipulated me into becoming a successful worker. We should remain critically aware of our manipulation, I agree.

>>18459965
This is pretty awesome lol.

>>18460081
Holy hell anon you're pretty well read

>>18460097
Who the fuck said anything about Americans? What are you talking about? Are you just looking for an excuse to seethe?

>>18460119
Reading books and collecting books are practically different hobbies, and I partake in both -- as do many of the people on this board.

>>18460232
This place looks so comfy dear lord...

>>18460232
Absolutely based setup.

>>18460722
Good God... this would have made me nut when I was 15. This has to be the library of some dying commie part in NYC, right? Or otherwise some academic?

1/4

>>18461385
2/4
Occult-ish section

>>18461394
3/4

>>18461399
4/4

1/2

>>18461411
2/2

>>18461188
Patronizing ppl doesn't make you look smart. I guess that means you at 15 had more taste than you now.

>>18461444
Lol that wasn't meant to be overly patronizing -- just a touch of lighthearted mockery. This is 4chan after all. It's not that severe of an insult to compare your library to that of a political party whose ideology you ascribe to, is it? Nor to compare your library to that of an academic?

Sorry if I hurt your feelings. I mean that genuinely. I was just teasing. Seriously, the collection is surprising and pretty impressive.

>>18461121
And how do you live with the fact you're a gear on the slaughter machine of thirsty, laughing megalomaniacs that believe they're gods?

>>18457306
jfc, the ultimate reddit consoomer

>>18461505
Oh well I guess. I'm doing my best, not gonna wail about it.

>>18460590
Communion. Nice.

>>18457306
ruined by all those retarded toys. what are you, 12?

>>18458338
Where's Rei?

>>18457574
wow you really like anatomy of melancholy

rate how cringe

>>18461811
>record player
OH NONONONONO

>>18461825
its from college. i never plug it in but it's too heavy and annoying to do anything with. so i keep it there for e-girl cred.

>>18460573
no

>>18460152
If you are planning on reading more French philosophy, does it really matter how long it will take? Learning French is much, much easier than Latin, because there isn't any tv in Latin :(

>>18457743
Why would you even bother reading titles if there's a funko pop on the shelf?

>>18461795
kek

>>18461818

>>18461969

>>18461969
thx

>>18461818
If Joe Rogan had a zoomer son, this would be his shelf.

>>18461760
I don't like Rei.

>>18461818
>Just Genki 1
>Picked up Japanese for a little bit then dropped it
Wow you're just like me

>>18462162
Maybe he just realized that it sucked?

>>18461936
I have other stuff I'm busy enough with. I hesitate to call it a philosophy book—but that is the idea—and I'd like to be done by the end of next year. I think it's fine for reference purposes to use English but if I really wanted to do a real study on Bergson, Bataille, or Deleuze, like an actual monograph, it would make sense to learn their French.

>>18462162
>>18462221
I lacked the motivation to fully commit to Japanese and ended up enjoying Arabic more.

>>18462393
can you take some pics of the contents of the mobius books?

>>18462393
god please take my virginity

also whats in the trash can?

>>18462401
the contents? any specific ones?

>>18462406
garbage m8

>>18462418
>the contents? any specific ones?
any one is fine, are they mobius art books?

>>18457909
FUCK YOU

>>18457343
I think it's a book store

>>18458824
Love u m8

>>18462450
Nah, has some of his sketches in it. Story about his life where he inserts himself with his characters from his other comics and about his struggle quitting weed as well

>>18457752
No werewolf of fever swamp 0/10

>>18462281
Unironically based

>>18457306

All Donald Duck pocket books published here in Finland

>>18462992
How is that much duck even possible?

>>18460081
I like it. Can you post a close up of the middle shelf? The one with the 4 volume hardback set.

Ignore the pokemon.

>>18457574
Looks like a Donkey Kong level

>>18462393
Is that complete Lovecraft a well made volume?

>>18463103
kek

>>18458824

I have quite a few of those, the Homer, Chomsky and Zizek, Simulacra and Simulation, Denial of Death, Anti-Oedipus. And Malcom Gladwell who I think is a bit of an idiot.

Malleus Maleficarum, I picked it up as a teenager thinking maybe I should be hunting down witches but in hindsight that was really dumb.

>>18458824
>>18461385
Love it.

>>18463196
>I picked it up as a teenager thinking maybe I should be hunting down witches but in hindsight that was really dumb.
Filter'd.

>>18457909
your water must have extra fluoride

>>18458338
fellow Asuka chad

>>18461385
where did you get Caste and Races?

>>18463240
I like you.

>>18463321
Not that guy, but you can get it from Caribbean Thule Publishing.

>>18461416
lol IDIOT

>>18457330

>>18463085
how's life in chile, pablo?

1/8

2/8

3/8

4/8

5/8

6/8

7/8

8/8
Books with no spine text

>>18463637
Thats the texan flag

>>18463669
What are those two hardcover book at the right bottom?

>>18461952
kek, this

>>18461795
its Goethes collected works

>>18458310
ich bin enttarnt

>>18457306
not to measure dicks but do y'all only have one bookshelf?

>>18461444
>>18461460
Absolute faggots. Every communist I've ever met has been a low-effort midwit, in exact accordance to what one would predict from a first principles analysis of the retarded ideology. Squirming over the appearance of being learned, so par for the course.

>>18463073
Sure sure. Please excuse all the Gladwell.

>>18461136
Don't be impressed. I've probably only MAYBE read up to 33–40% of what isn't reference lit here. I read slow and have a looooong to-read list that I just grab items from if I ever find them on sale or if cheap out-of-print rarities from that list show up on ebay/etsy or the like.

the virgin funko >>18457306 vs the chad figurine owner >>18457331

Roughly up to the alarm has been read, everything else is backlogged

>>18464539
Jesus, was it worth the time investment?

You can tell I don’t read books that often.

>>18464554
Can’t tell if that is a joke about the clock or a comment on the potential wasted time of excessive reading. If the latter, yes, sometimes it does feel wasted

>all these pristine, untouched books
Wouldn't hurt to read a few of your books, guys...

>>18464951
Stop cracking your spines, you savage

Look on ye pseuds and despair

>>18465060

>>18462393
We have some writers in common.

>>18465069

>>18464316
Nazis lost :)
Capitalism is literally killing millions of people every year.
Communism is the only option.

>>18457306
looks like a booktuber's shelf.

>>18465210
Communism killed hundreds of millions.

>>18465069
>Chandler and Hammet
Based

>>18465210
>>18465273
You are both idiots, tribalism is the only way.

>>18463637
You made that joke last time, friend.

>>18465273
onions mass media talking point

Does anyone else get bothered when their books get put in a random order and the size doesn't line up?

>>18460097
Rent free.
So what part of the world are you from?
The asses we saved?
Or the asses we kicked?

Yes i like ASOIAF sue me. I have everything besides F&B which i just finished on audiobook and the 2 short stories about what transpired before the Dance of the Dragons. Besides that some history/philosophy stuff.

>>18460374
It was good. I’m not sure I agree with the fundamental principal, but it was extremely well-presented and raised a lot of good arguments.

>>18462588
Love you too.

>>18463196
Yeah, I picked up Malleus years ago thinking it was a handbook on identifying witches from back in the day, but it’s dry legalese about trying them.

>>18465987
Americans are so delusional about what the rest of the world thinks about their imperialist war mongering ways.

Well Adjusted Person :^)

>>18466237
>being dragged into 2 world wars despite the country being overwhelmingly anti-war and the being made the world police
>imperialist war mongering ways

It's literally your fault.

>>18463671
holy based...

>>18466551
is that skyline real??

>>18457348
>Mandela
Anon, find some rope, and if you’re a nigger light yourself on fire.

>>18466613
>bookcase throwing shadow on the clouds
I think it's just a wall anon.

here's my mostly dante shelf

>>18464717
post tits

>>18466613
It absolutely is.

>>18466617
what was the rope for?

>>18457909
I do this too for privacy

>>18467334
Why did you glue your books to the top of the shelf, anon?

This is calibre, I have almost one thousand books and all of them are in my kindle.

>>18468143
I forgot to mention. I didn't expend a penny on any of them.

>>18467966
i didn't, i'm australian.

>>18468152
Might as well just download libgen.is, you could have millions then.

>>18467342
Post cock first.

>>18463240
>>18463326
Me too

>>18457306

>>18457909
This is actually I funny prank I could do when inviting people over.

>>18468629
Nice. I have most of those books!

Mainly History, Tolkien and some mathematics books.

>>18458824
Hnnnggg

>>18461811
>owns the version of Gravity’s rainbow with typos in it

>>18457574

>>18466427
based and nationalist pony pilled

>>18470021
i was waiting for someone to post this

>>18457348
Don't go to Rio, go to Fernando de Noronha instead.

>>18470055
lol

>>18458824
Gladwell sucks

>>18458816
Show your bookshelf then.

>>18470101
you're a bit late with this advice! rio treated me very well, i'd say it's one of the great cities of the world.

>>18458338
It’s incredible how you have Gene Wolfe and Jack Vance in the same shelf as cringe isekai shit, anon. Don’t you have any sense of literary dignity?

>>18461818
This anon is a WAHMEN, litbros.

this is my main one. top is books I've read in chronological order, bottom is books I read before I started doing that
chair is music i need to find somewhere to put

>>18468143
I’m pretty sure every ebook nigga here in /lit/ hasn’t spent a dime on any of the books they “own”.

>konosuba
Based.

I don't even own a book, let alone many books, with which to necessitate a bookshelf.

>>18457607
Based supple leopard owner. Enjoy your healthy joints

>>18471518
No. I just like what I like

>>18461399
>>18457331
>>18458338
based weebs

>>18459807
Will Durant series is great

>>18470021
Nice Nabokov, and I have that edition of TLOTR.

>>18457306
Only one of my shelfs

>>18465069
damn that gary lutz comes out of nowhere

>>18468360
Underrated

Dantechads being always the smartest ones.

>>18457306
just moved to a new place, so there is no order to speak of. what's the best way to arrange/organise books?
1/4

>>18472719
2/4

>>18472719
3/4

>>18472719
4/4

I got a table at least

>>18472875
Good for you anon. Also that's a pretty awesome stack, you must be an interesting guy.

>>18472855
Hesse, Kazantzakis, Asimov, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Hegel, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Schopenhauer, Latin grammar, Tolstoy....

Wow anon you have awesome taste. This is an impressive collection, I hope you're doing well in life.

>>18472776
Based overflowing mess.

>>18472945
thank you :)

>>18472855
You should check out Bataille's On Nietzsche and the other volume of The Accursed Share.

>>18466613
>>18467342
That's a Photo on a wall

>>18473215
wtf? those outlets aren't floating in the void?

>>18473307
They do; use magic spells and duct tape

>>18462393
how is the way of kings so thin

>>18466427
based ministry of image fo:e set, want one myself :(

It's not organized but I don't really care

1/3

>>18457306

>>18473850
sorry my phone camera is apparently fucking shit

>>18473854

>>18473655
>bunch of Fisher and urbanomic books
>neuromancer
Where are you hiding Land/CCRU?

>>18457909
I met a very strange man who did this but only on books he disliked. I was so creeped out, it made me want to shower immediately.

>>18473655
>urbanomic
Kek

>>18458391
I quite like reddit desu

>>18460722
cringe

>>18462739
God, I wish I had a friend like you.

>>18463240
The spines on most of these are immaculate, suggesting they haven't been read... however, since a library indicates the books one intends to read, most of your choices are decent.

>>18463660
did you read 'the great reset'? what's it like?

>>18460232
Just a tourist, but I can appreciate the large monkey mask you have to the left. A very nice plant indeed. But uhh, how can you read on such a thin mattress? must hurt after a while.

>>18473982
you do realize people can be careful with their books, right?

>>18474060
no, it's a practical impossibility.
It means you value the paper more than the words inside.
You value the material more than the meaning.


*sob*

... implying I'm messy, motherfucker.

>>18461818
>Nail polish gel
explain yourself

Holy fug I just met a deadline by 24 seconds because my internet lagged

>>18472123
I picked it up on the recommendation of paperbird. I quite enjoyed it

>>18474128
what is there to explain?

>>18474098
you're certainly melodramatic, faggot

>>18466104

I have that same fucking Corinthian helmet on my bookshelf, my parents got it from Cyprus for me.

>>18474686
Are you.... homosexual?

>>18458824
highly based. why do the english versions of capital and POE look inferior to the german originals i have though

>>18463240
You're based

>>18465273
You know that you don't have to label yourself and then defend your label to the death right

>>18462613
fuck, I remember that one! Turned out to be his ginger mate or something

>>18467334
Pretty big collection for an Australian

>>18457909
KEK

>>18458824
>i have two sides, the bookshelf

>>18461505
You have to be 18+ to post on this site

>>18471798
Fuck I need that alice in wonderland edition

>>18472719
Order the books by height