/lit/ - Literature

>>18594925

>>18594925
>oxford
I love these little niggas like you wouldn't believe

>>18594950
7/10
>>18594970
5/10

>>18594925
how is the RSC?

>>18595681
lmao cringe

>>18594950
>I love these little niggas like you wouldn't believe
not enough to read them

>>18595681

>>18595681
babby's first sinosimping

>>18595702

>>18595681
>>18595209
>>18594925
>>18594950
>>18594911
>>18595714
All of these shelves are pseud. You can tell because you guys have "classics" but nothing that shows actual personality. Look at an actual academics shelf and you have 70 academic books on specific topics related to their research. You guys just have Dante hardcover Plato hardcover etc etc. How about actually study something seriously once in your life. Your shelf will get filled with obscure specialized kino

This kills the tradcath.

>>18596007
just because you’re a contrarian plebbitor doesn’t make well-known philosophy pseud.
yes, plato’s works are actually interesting to read. if you actually read them instead of caring how unique and not-pseud your interests are, you would know. also, people like collecting book editions to have a nice looking shelf, similar to anyone who collects anything.

nice projection tho

>>18596100
The philosophy itself isn't pseud it's having only popular classics and nothing else. It shows you guys don't actually have any interests. If you were interested in 14th century philosophy you would have tons of specialized books on the topic. If you were interested in the philosophy of language you wouldn't have just one popular book you would have everything needed to actually understand the subject.

>>18596007
you are totally right.

>>18596007
hard cold facts but some people explore everything when they're still novice readers

>>18596119
yeah i get what you mean, fair enough

>>18594950
Gothic lit master race.

>>18594911
A nice old edition of Dante Rossetti's Early Italian Poets would look quite good here.

>>18596007
Experts are usually older than the people who browse 4chan. Delving deeper into a field comes with age and progressing through the basics.
>Hardcover argument
What if it's the only edition or the cheapest edition I can get?

>>18596255
I posted one of those shelfs and just started reading not even half a year ago, but I have finished around 30 books this year and have fell in love with reading again. I'm definitely still exploring around and trying to figure out what, specifically, I'm interested in.

>>18596007
Most here read as a hobby, also academic and serious reader types seem to think posting ones own book shelf for others to see as being vulgar.

>>18596349
I wasn't making any argument about hardcovers. That's the only type of book I buy. I upgrade my paperbacks when I can. I agree with your first point though

>>18596007
I'm literally just a 20 year old man reading for my own enjoyment and you're seething.

>>18594911
>reading translations of his one area of interest
>"patrician"
lol?

>>18596358
I'm a real patrician and I don't post my books because I spent hours of my life researching and I don't want teens to get the easy way out. Also I'm no a longer a patrician once the shit starts spreading on goodreads and 4chan charts. I have so much good shit though. Like for all the commonly posted topics or threads asking for book recommendations I could just drop 50 literally unknown amazing books but I won't because of the reasons above.

>>18596370
it's good advice, you should take it

>>18596370
Yeah I shouldn't shit on people having fun and reading for enjoyment. I realize now the real thing I hate is the avant teen smugness that comes from the 3000+ read Goodreads account teen who only reads shit because it's obscure and hard. You guys are at least reading good stuff

>>18596376
Name five so we can see if you are not just larping.

>>18596376
Cmon bud, name a few.

>>18596376
That's a stupid mindset, doubt you really care about your topics. Every time I discover a great book in a field I'm interested in I feel the need to share it with other people. What are you gonna do with the knowledge you discovered, just die with it? It's way better when you are the reason good stuff has become more popular.

>>18596407
>>18596476
I'm trying to make a list of shit that I don't care about. Don't want to post the good shit

>>18596483
I have plans to do something creative with all the information. It kinda ruins it if Pewdiepie does a book review on something valuable that I knew before anyone else.

>>18596487
The jig is up, from the way you type alone I can tell you are a pleb like everyone else, know that I only feel compassion towards you.

>>18596483
>a great book in a field I'm interested
Could you name a few, in a bit of a rut as what to read next.

>>18596007
Absolutely and 100% based. I only see a few patrician shelves here with books that show what they're actually interested in(ie; >>18595681 >>18594957) instead of just vague "classics"

>>18596476
>>18596483
Ok I picked randomly from my to read spreadsheet. I'm not giving you the good shit.

Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Suzanne Langer
Man in this World Hans Zehrer
Vivas As Critic: Essays In Poetics And Criticism Eliseo Vivas
Love and Beauty Guy Sircello
Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory John Roemer

>>18596543
>I'm not giving you the good shit.
Yeah I can see that, keep your larp to a minimum next time.

>>18596543
>to read
So you have not idea if you like them

>>18596577
The stuff I read is the stuff I liked so I don't want to give that away.

>>18596621

>>18596568
What were you looking for? Any specific topics? Post 5 books if you got better. It's a decent list of random academic books. People are always posting about art and beauty but no one brings up the analytics who wrote on it. Man in this World by Hans Zehrer is highly rated among the 6 people who read it. Based on the reviews it could be like a new Evola book to spam on the forums. Look at that statue

>Being an expert is when you post 5 random academic books you haven't read

>>18596645
I never said I was an expert. I just said I actually research books on specific topics which is what I posted. Do you have any topics you are interested in I could post some books in the field you might like

Thoughts?

>>18596645
To give an example. Instead of just buying a book on philosophy because it’s popular. Maybe get interested in a topic like Philosophy of Language. Instead of just buying one book maybe venture out and start reading and picking up copies of Frege, Quine, Strawson, Searle, Austin, Davidson etc. Get into topics like Montague Semantics. Pick up books like Truth and Meaning, Logico-Linguistic Papers, Language Thought and Reality, Reference and Essence. Don't just buy the collected works of Aristotle and act like your patrician because of it. Actually study a topic.

>>18596660
Why would I care about your recommendations your poseur cretin?

>>18596704
I would care about your recommendations maybe you can give me some.

>>18594970
Very based

>>18596634
For the reasons I said above. You always need to keep a few books away to get pussy. "Have you heard of? Oh no one has haha"

>>18594911
>>18594970
>>18595209
>>18595681
>>18595714
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>>18594957
I like these (especially the sino one)
>>18594925
>>18596536
>>18594917
I do not like these

>>18596055
ok

>>18594911
true patrician coming through

>>18594917
>The Nordic cookbook
What

My to-read and to-watch shelf

>>18597665
sort that shit out mate

>>18597395
>No Hork-Bajir Chronicles
Pseud alert.

i don't even have a shelf where i live

>>18595698
I didn't read Otranto and Robinson because they were used books I bought for the sake of buying, I already owned the an Easton Press of Robinson and a hardcover of Otranto. I read everything else, thanks god I don't have the hands of a fucking orangutan.
>>18596007
Shut the fuck up you lifeless nigger, my classics have more personality than your whole existence.

>>18594917
No Landmark Alexander? Why?

>>18594911
Couldnt be more cringe
Holy fuck imagine actually enjoying that drivel

>>18596318
I wish more publishing houses would focus on gothic.

>>18597962
Poland has not invented shelves yet?

>>18594957
Based Footefag

I need more shelf space

>>18594911

>>18597665
>faulkner and kierkegaard
dangerously based

And what % of those have you read?

Here's one of Eric Weinstein's, plus sone recs, what do you reckon on quality?
https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/eric-weinstein-books

>>18598892
Would be friends/10
Actually I didn't notice the cursed child edition, nvm

>>18599555
I hate it so much, it was the worst writing she's done and I even read A Casual Vacancy. Plus it pops out so visibly from the rest of the books on my shelf. But I don't want to just throw it away because I bought it when it first came out for like $30.

>>18599618
Oh no
I figured it was a gift like 'oh you love harry potter so much so here...'
Fuck do I miss reading Bone comics

I post just one shelf

>>18598908
>ready player one
based and patrician shelf pilled

>>18599526
dangerously based

>>18596376
Keep at it bro, make the zoomers who want to be spoonfed seethe. I also enjoy having kino books not discussed on /lit/.

>>18597962
>Pyotr Wrangel
Why does this seem really familiar?

>>18600476
You’re the happy merchant of books.

>>18600510
Yes.

>>18599503
based dutch spenglerian

>>18596536
>when they fall for the starter pack meme

>>18597962
Where do you get your books in Polish from? Unless you just live in Poland

>>18600484
Mystery grove meme book about russian civil war. I've been meaning to read it.

>>18594970

>Asuka
automatic disqualification due to the OP's condition.

>>18599503
What's the NANR?

>>18601975
Imagine being this much of an homosexual

>>18596743
holy shit
you hypocritical pseud

>>18594911
christ i want that edition of dante's lyric poetry
i have a saved search on abebooks but it's impossible to get hold of

>>18602086
First and only 2 editions of North American New Right.

>>18601874
Now i remember. he was in some hoi4 mod

>>18602247
He is a potential Russian leader in Kaiserreich since the Darkest Hour days

>>18597682
Based
>>18597395
Almost based

The one that I just built which now comfortably houses my overflow.

>>18597682
I got rid of all my Animorphs books years ago to save space... except that one.

>>18601857
amazon
takes ages to get them delivered though >>18601874
it's really good
>>18598441
i wouldn't know, never been

>>18600476
>kino
>seethe
Go back to /tv/

>>18599547
What languages there do you speak? Any tips for language learning if you're good with a few?

>>18599526
Marxchads...I'm thinking I kneel...

>>18596743
You sound like an 18 year old leddit immigrant, go back, or kill yourself, seriously, the world could do less with post-pseuds like yourself

>>18597665
I have that copy of Either/Or

>>18599526
jesus

>>18597665
I’ve never read the Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Hegel, is it difficult like his other works?

>>18599503
Dangerously based

>>18603778
>he browses /tv/ to recognize my lingo enough to call me out, but doesn't browse /lit/ enough to know I call books kino without ever having browsed /tv/
it's like you don't even write sticky notes about distinct posters

>>18603790
I speak Spanish and German and am planning on Hungarian, from that I can read a bit of French, Dutch, Portuguese and Italian.
Get a good textbook and nail down the grammar first.
Use a lot of resources such as books, film and gaymes to build a vocabulary.
Put yourself to the test with real people or shitpost on /int/.
What helped me most was translating every single thing I spoke into my target language. E.G., “Mum, what’s for dinner?” > « ¿Mamá, qué hay para cenar? »

>>18603729
Cheers boss. Been looking high and low for a good place to get them now that where I used to buy them from no longer exists, and of course its the most obvious place, but one that I didn't bother looking in. Still no decent copies of Ferdydurke or Pornografia, but at least now I can get a copy of Nienasycenie without being set back by like twenty fuckin quid.

>>18599526
>>18603933

>>18605211
hell yeah brother

>>18599552
probably more money was spent in this single shelf than all others in this thread combined.

>>18606351
have you read the terror? what do you think of it?
and if you've seen the show, how does it relate to it?

>>18594911

>>18596055
Based

>>18596055

>>18606467
So, what have you learned by reading all these?

>>18606592
Catholicism is false

>>18606403
Read the book, watched the show, liked both, although book was more my cup of tea.

>>18606592
that's not his shelf.

>>18596370
I don't see the shelves of someone reading for their own enjoyment here. This selection is all externally directed. The true lover of literature is spontaneous and eclectic, spends hours digging through stacks in dusty used book shops and emerges with a stack of treasures and oddities that pique his interests at the time.

>>18607169
Is this Waldun?

>>18607169
What’s wrong with >>18595209
It’s almost all fiction and I’ve enjoyed all of what I've read.

Why is it so hard to believe that someone is genuinely interested in the Western canon for its own sake? That's not a lack of personality.

bump

Time to make /lit/ seethe

>>18608635
Why's that?

>>18603807
no because they are introductory

>>18607436
because reading poetry n translation is retarded and its only purpose is for the works cultural significance. Having most of your shelf dedicated to English Dante is the fastest route to outing a pseud
(its ok to resonate with Dantes themes but don't act like you can be a genuine fan of a poet if its in translation).

>>18609121
ignore this post

>>18609121
>Genuine fan of a poet
Holy shit that wording

>>18606467
My uni library has a shelf like that, someone gifted them a complete luther works despite it being in Australia and the texts being in german only

>>18597406
Never read it but the author is a chef and he was on an episode of Chefs Table or something similar. This fucking guy is picking grass and flower petals and garnishing fancy elk steaks and meatballs and he's like this is what nordic cooking is all about.

>>18594911
Pretends to have a patrician shelf and doesn't even have the patrician book.

Another patrician book.

>>18596536
Based and high-school pilled

>>18609091

>>18607436

There is a small part of me that kinda likes how contemporary woke culture is making the classics taboo. There's no surer way to increase interest in something than to forbid it. A new generation of readers will come to the texts for the very reason that they're not allowed.

I understand that they're likely to come to a bowlderized/shitty translation, but still the principle is sound.

>>18608635
I don't know any of those books, got any Harry Potter?

>>18609529
Und

>>18609529
WoT’s ur ELO m8

>>18609537
I don't know what that is

>>18609537
Don't have one. Long time procrastinator. Hard finding the time to thumb through the theory because I'm so insecure of making an ass of myself playing against my gf

>>18596536
schizo fiction shelf, nice.

>>18609647
Play computer chess, if your ego can take the immediate drop in ranking it’s easy to find games in different time controls if you just want to get quick games in, lichess or chess.com both have good free access

>>18596007
Thank you for speaking truth on this forsaken circlejerk board, King.

shelf missing conrad, poe and machiavelli since its very full

>>18610264
>SPQR

>>18610264
i like this a lot
are u majoring in philosophy?

>>18599547
based and polyglot pilled

>>18599547
lmao at the size difference in beginner's french nad beginner's dutch

>>18596492
Imagine larping as a patrician while working on a project you're afraid might be stolen by a Pewdiepie subscriber

bump

My shelves change often, even though they look the same every time I post

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3/8

4/8

5/8

6/8

7/8

8/8

Books without spine text

>>18614729
>>18614739
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>>18614782
u seem very open minded politically, I like

>>18614729
stop shitting up the threads just because you got 1 new book

>>18614894
5, actually :)

>>18614870
Still landed on non-imperialist Fascism, for what it's worth.

>>18614906
you got stalin when I told you to get lenin you dumb bitch

>>18614936
I have Lenin. Shelf 2

>>18614953
good boy. i know you're a fashy but you should at least have his works on imperialism

>>18614960
I want to get Trotsky's critique on Fascism. Which Lenin work would you specifically recommend? I recall a previous thread you mentioning a title but I must have forgotten.

>>18614960
just saw this you're a non-imperialist facist >>18614911 which is all the more reason to have lenins book on imperialism

I also have complete Shakespeare behind the second row and some other stuff behind the third

>>18614966
fuck i need to refresh thread before I post.
see pic rel

>>18614985
Added, thanks for the rec. That's why I like to post my shelf, people recommend good books on /lit/.

>>18609305
>>18609309
I cant read this dumb nigger language. Anything not in English isnt Patrician, just a dirty foreigner book.

>>18596007
Seriously. The last good post I saw in one of these threads was the font/design fag. Bookshelves are for things you come back to. I highly doubt the LARPers who put Plato and Aristotle on their shelves read them more than once, if at all.

>>18596536
kek high school reading list

>>18599526
based

>>18596663
10/10 would drive through the Hollywood Hills with you.